Phonetic Symbol Guide (original) (raw)

Phonetic Symbol Guide

University of Chicago Press, 1996
Cloth: 978-0-226-68535-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-68536-6 | Electronic: 978-0-226-92488-5
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226924885.001.0001

ABOUT THIS BOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Table of Entries

Introduction

Character Entries

Diacritic Entries

Glossary

References

Symbol Charts

The Cardinal Vowels 1–8

The Cardinal Vowels 9–16

IPA Symbols for Unrounded Vowels

IPA Symbols for Rounded Vowels

Bloch and Tragery's Vowel Symbols

American Usage Vowel Symbols

The Chomsky/Halle Vowel System

American Usage Consonant Symbols

IPA Consonant Symbols

IPA Suprasegmental Symbols

IPA Diacritics

Language Index

Subject Index

Symbol Name Index