This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of twenty-nine "Illustrations" of the application of the International Phonetic Alphabet to a range of languages; and Part III covers speech pathology, computer codings, and the history of the IPA. This is an essential reference work for phoneticians and linguists more generally.
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This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of 29 'Illustrations' of the application of the International Phonetic Alphabet to a range of languages; and Part III covers speech pathology, computer codings, and the history of the IPA. This is an essential reference work for phoneticians and linguists more generally.
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This review is from: Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (International Handbook Assoc) (Paperback)
This is a much needed and superb book. It is a must for all the specialists and beginners in phonetic transcription. At last, we have a general and compact presentation of the current version of IPA, also throwing new light on the rationale of some choices that were not clear or explicit enough in the papers appeared in the Journal of the IPA. A new symbol (for the retroflex implosive of Sindhi) is also added, together with some proposals for a wider usage of little apex letters. I would have appreciated still more details on the (clumsy and much debatable) solutions proposed by present IPA for tonal notations: I feel definitely more at ease on Yuanren Chao's side! The choice of sample languages is quite balanced as for families and geographical distribution. In my opinion, however, the languages should also have been chosen also because of their sociolinguistic relevance. Might we hope, e.g., for something on Spanish and Italian in the next edition?
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This book is exactly what one would expect it to be: a thorough explanation of the International Phonetic Alphabet. It has a beginning section on the description of consonant and vowel sounds and thier places of articulation. The best part about the book is it analyzes the phonetic alphabet of most of the world's languages including many lesser used ones such as Bulgarian, Catalan, and Igbo, for example. The back has a description of each of the symbols so one can figure out what sound an unfamiliar symbol represents. This is a good reference book for all linguistics.
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I have taken up linguistics as a hobby and I am finding the IPA Handbook a very useful guide to the phonetic alphabet and phonetic transcription. The best part is a phonetic guide to 28 languages such as Cantonese, American English and Arabic. The sound examples can be downloaded and the IPA charts are included in a form that allows easy duplication and enlargement. There is a succinct introduction to phonetics and phonology. All in all this would probably be a handy reference for people on any level.
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There are many different dialects of English spoken in North America, so it is somewhat improper to refer to any one of them simply as 'American English'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suprasegmental symbols, phonetic diphthongs, orthographic version, bilabial implosive, postalveolar affricate, central rounded vowel, vowel quadrilateral, partial voicing, lateral approximant, postalveolar fricative, uvular plosive, voiced velar plosive, epiglottal fricative, impressionistic transcription, palatal plosive, central unrounded vowel, alveolar lateral, cardinal vowels, front unrounded vowel, nasal release, voiceless dental, mid central vowel, alveolar trill, palatal approximant, consonant table Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Department of Linguistics, Stress Stress, European Portuguese, Gaoth Dobhair, Standard Igbo, Retracted Tongue Root, Standard Slovene, Standard Thai, Addis Ababa, Central Catalan, Phonetics Laboratory, Cambridge University Press, Hilgard Avenue, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Los Angeles, The Hague New!
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There are many different dialects of English spoken in North America, so it is somewhat improper to refer to any one of them simply as 'American English'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suprasegmental symbols, phonetic diphthongs, orthographic version, bilabial implosive, postalveolar affricate, central rounded vowel, vowel quadrilateral, partial voicing, lateral approximant, postalveolar fricative, uvular plosive, voiced velar plosive, epiglottal fricative, impressionistic transcription, palatal plosive, central unrounded vowel, alveolar lateral, cardinal vowels, front unrounded vowel, nasal release, voiceless dental, mid central vowel, alveolar trill, palatal approximant, consonant table Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Department of Linguistics, Stress Stress, European Portuguese, Gaoth Dobhair, Standard Igbo, Retracted Tongue Root, Standard Slovene, Standard Thai, Addis Ababa, Central Catalan, Phonetics Laboratory, Cambridge University Press, Hilgard Avenue, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Los Angeles, The Hague New!
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- Phonetic Symbol Guide by Geoffrey K. Pullum in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spoken Language Reference Materials (Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems) by Dafydd Gibbon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Phonology of Catalan (Phonology of the World's Languages) by Max W. Wheeler on page 65
- Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics by Wolfram Ziegler in Back Matter
- Arabic Phonology: An Acoustical and Physiological Investigation (Janua Linguarum, Ser Practica : No 61) by Salman H. Al-Ani on page 54
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