Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A phonetic alphabet and diacritic modifiers sponsored by the International Phonetic Association to provide a uniform and universally understood system for transcribing the speech sounds of all languages.
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- proper noun A
standardized set ofsymbols forrepresenting thesounds of humanspeech .
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That means creating a written form of the language, which the researchers do using what is known as the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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In the same domain, SLIPA is a very interesting attempts at using International Phonetic Alphabet characters that can all be represented using Unicode.
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This is a nice example of why the International Phonetic Alphabet should be taught in schools.
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The alphabet is identical to the International Alphabet alfa, bravo… and the International Phonetic Alphabet, except that the few strange IPA letters have been substituted by popular Latin alphabet letters.
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The alphabet is identical to the International Alphabet alfa, bravo… and the International Phonetic Alphabet, except that the few strange IPA letters have been substituted by popular Latin alphabet letters.
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The term was adopted by 19th-century Germanic philologists to identify similar sounds in Indo-European languages, and the symbol was included in the International Phonetic Alphabet when this was devised in the 1880s.
On schwa DC 2007
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The term was adopted by 19th-century Germanic philologists to identify similar sounds in Indo-European languages, and the symbol was included in the International Phonetic Alphabet when this was devised in the 1880s.
Archive 2007-08-01 DC 2007
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To make it possible to communicate sounds taken from all manner of other languages including click languages, she has also devised a phonetic system that is arguably more versatile than the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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So, contrary to general practice except in learner's dictionaries, they decided to supply an Australian pronunciation, with variants, for every headword entry, using a suitable version of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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The symbols within the square brackets [] is the pronunciation as indicated by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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