Alfred's IPA Made Easy
Title | Alfred's IPA Made Easy PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Wentlent |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Total Pages | 67 |
Release | 2014-02-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1470624230 |
How many years has it been since your last diction class? This handy guidebook is an easy reference for the symbols used in IPA: what they look like and how they are pronounced. Example words for every symbol are included in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. And an online resource includes recorded demonstrations of every sound. A clear and concise tool for singing in foreign languages, equally useful in the choir room and the vocal studio.
Alfred's IPA Made Easy Poster Set
Title | Alfred's IPA Made Easy Poster Set PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Wentlent |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781470640880 |
This set of full-color 9" x 12" cardstock posters provides a practical tool for teaching the International Phonetic Alphabet and uniform vowel formation. Each poster displays one of the primary vowel sounds, including its IPA symbol, pronunciation, and example words in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, or Spanish. Plus, an online resource offers recorded demonstrations of every sound. Equally useful for choral rehearsal rooms and vocal studios!
Phonetic Symbol Guide
Title | Phonetic Symbol Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey K. Pullum |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 359 |
Release | 2013-02-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0226924882 |
An indispensable comprehensive reference guide to the phonetic alphabet symbols, revised and expanded. Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world’s languages. This fully revised second edition incorporates the major revisions to the International Phonetic Alphabet made in 1989 and 1993. Also covered are the American tradition of transcription stemming from the anthropological school of Franz Boas; the Bloch/Smith/Trager style of transcription; the symbols used by dialectologists of the English language; usages of specialists such as Slavicists, Indologists, Sinologists, and Africanists; and the transcription proposals found in all major textbooks of phonetics. With sixty-one new entries, an expanded glossary of phonetic terms, added symbol charts, and a full index, this book will be an indispensable reference guide for students and professionals in linguistics, phonetics, anthropology, philology, modern language study, and speech science. Praise for the First Edition of Phonetic Symbol Guide “A useful and convenient reference work in dictionary form.” —Marc Picard, Canadian Journal of Linguistics “Pullum and Ladusaw have compiled a unique . . . and very enjoyable book. . . . I expect that this guide will prove to be very useful to very many people.” —Keren D. Rice, Phonology “The attention to detail is exemplary, as is the clarity of exposition. . . . The authors have produced a book in which there is much to be admired.” —Richard Coates, Journal of Linguistics
Diction for Singers
Title | Diction for Singers PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Wall |
Publisher | Ingram |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Singing |
ISBN | 9781934477700 |
A concise reference and text for undergraduate classes in diction
Chuukese Alphabet
Title | Chuukese Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Phillips |
Publisher | Bess Press |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781573062220 |
Illustrated with children's artwork collected by the Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), the book features 4 or 5 illustrated examples for each letter as well as a word list of English translations.
Phonetics For Dummies
Title | Phonetics For Dummies PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Katz |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2013-09-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1118505085 |
The clear and easy way to get a handle on the science of speech The science of how people produce and perceive speech, phonetics has an array of real-world applications, from helping engineers create an authentic sounding Irish or Canadian accent for a GPS voice, to assisting forensics investigators identifying the person whose voice was caught on tape, to helping a film actor make the transition to the stage. Phonetics is a required course among students of speech pathology and linguistics, and it's a popular elective among students of telecommunications and forensics. The first popular guide to this fascinating discipline, Phonetics For Dummies is an excellent overview of the field for students enrolled in introductory phonetics courses and an ideal introduction for anyone with an interest in the field. Bonus instructional videos, video quizzes, and other content available online for download on the dummies.com product page for this book.
Marshallese Alphabet
Title | Marshallese Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Phillips |
Publisher | Bess Press |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781573062213 |
This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and childrens' artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each hardcover book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations. The series was co-published with Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, a non-profit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education across the Pacific.