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
Phonetic Symbol Guide
Title | Phonetic Symbol Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey K. Pullum |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 366 |
Release | 1996-07-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780226685359 |
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.
Phonetic Symbol Guide
Title | Phonetic Symbol Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey K. Pullum |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1996-07-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780226685366 |
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.
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
Title | Handbook of the International Phonetic Association PDF eBook |
Author | International Phonetic Association |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521637510 |
An essential, comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, for phoneticians and others concerned with speech.
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.
Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish
Title | Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Lee Face |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Spanish language |
ISBN | 9781574730265 |
This important reference presents the many phonetic symbols and symbol systems that linguists have used for the sounds of Spanish. More than 450 clear entries for symbols and diacritics describe their meanings in the RFE, IPA, and American systems, as well as less common and unconventional uses. The book includes an overview of the Spanish sound system and a helpful glossary of phonetic terms. Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish will prove invaluable for scholars and students of Spanish phonetics and phonology, and a necessary resource for linguists who encounter the abundance of phonetic symbols used for Spanish.
International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers
Title | International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Wall |
Publisher | Pst Records |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
"It is a manual where students compare and contrast words to hear specific sounds, read and write IPA transcriptions, read the sounds of nonsense words (which lays the foundation for reading foreign language transcriptions), become aware of the articulators and how they produce each sound, and sing examples for greater awareness for how to handle each sound while singing."--Page [4] of cover.