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Mandatory Sentencing Guidelines

Judge John Hodgman

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What Is an Ideal Phone?

An idiophone is an onomatopoeic element that functions as part of a distinct word class. It's especially common in some African languages. English is not really, we're not an idiophonic language but we do have some idiophonic elements. For example, words that refer or that mean small often have an E or vowel sound in them.

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