This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Occasionally symbols are added, removed, or modified by the International Phonetic Association. As of 2008, there are 107 distinct letters, 52 diacritics, and four prosody marks in the IPA proper to represent English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and of the United States since the mid 20th century, it has become the lingua franca in many parts of the world. It is pronunciations.
See Pronunciation respelling for English Pronunciation respelling is a type of notation system used to convey the pronunciation of words, in a language which doesn't have a phonemic orthography . Respelling systems are meant to be easy for native readers to understand, but do not represent phonetic differences between English accents or dialects. English dictionaries have used various for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.
- AuE = Australian English Australian English is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, it is one of the most regionally homogeneous language varieties in the world. As with most dialects of English, it is distinguished primarily by its vowel phonology[1]
- CaE = Canadian English Canadian English is the variety of English used in Canada. More than 26 million Canadians (85% of the population) have some knowledge of English (2006 census). Approximately 17 million speak English as their native language. Outside Quebec, 76% of Canadians speak English natively. Canadian English contains elements of British English in its[citation needed]
- GA = General American General American is an accent of American English. Within American English, General American and accents approximating it are contrasted with Southern American English, several Northeastern accents, and other distinct regional accents and social group accents like African American Vernacular English[2][3]
- IrE = Irish English Hiberno-English – also known as Anglo-Irish and Irish English – is English as spoken in Ireland, partly the result of the interaction of the English and Irish languages. English was mainly brought to Ireland during the Plantations of Ireland in the sixteenth century[citation needed] and established itself in Dublin and in the area of Leinster[citation needed]
- NZE = New Zealand English New Zealand English is the form of the English language used in New Zealand[citation needed]
- RP = Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation —also called the Queen's (or King's) English and BBC English—is the accent of Standard English in England, with a relationship to regional dialects similar to that of other European languages. Although there is nothing intrinsic about RP that marks it as superior to any other variety, sociolinguistic factors give (Great Britain British English, or UK English , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere. There is confusion whether the term refers to English as spoken in the British Isles or to English as spoken in Great Britain, though in the case of Ireland, there are further distinctions)[4]
- ScE = Scottish English Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. It may or may not include Scots depending on the observer[citation needed]
- SAE = South African English The term South African English is applied to the first language varieties of English spoken by South Africans, with the L1 English variety spoken by Zimbabweans and Namibians, being recognised as offshoots but is not in any experts opinion real English[citation needed]
- WaE = Welsh English Welsh English, Anglo-Welsh, or Wenglish refers to the dialects of English spoken in Wales by Welsh people. The dialects are significantly influenced by Welsh grammar and often include words derived from Welsh. In addition to the distinctive words and grammar, there is a variety of accents found across Wales from the South Wales Valleys to[citation needed]
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| IPA | Explanation |
| ˈ | Primary stress indicator (placed before the stressed syllable); for example, rapping /ˈɹæpɪŋ/ |
| ˌ | Secondary stress/full vowel indicator (placed before the stressed syllable); for example, pronunciation /pɹɵˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/ |
| . | Syllable A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants) separation indicator; for example, ice cream /ˈʌɪs.krim/ vs. I scream /ˌaɪ.ˈskrim/ |
| ̩ | Syllabic consonant indicator (placed under the syllabic consonant); for example, ridden /ˈɹɪdn̩/ |
Notes
- ^ Harrington, Cox & Evans (1997 This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent English language pronunciations)
- ^ Kenyon & Knott (1944/1953 This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent English language pronunciations)
- ^ Kenyon (1950 This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent English language pronunciations)
- ^ Roach (2004 This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent English language pronunciations:241-243). See Pronunciation respelling for English#International Phonetic Alphabet Pronunciation respelling is a type of notation system used to convey the pronunciation of words, in a language which doesn't have a phonemic orthography . Respelling systems are meant to be easy for native readers to understand, but do not represent phonetic differences between English accents or dialects. English dictionaries have used various for the alternative system devised by Clive Upton Clive Upton is professor of English language at the University of Leeds, England, specializing in dialectology and sociolinguistics. He has also acted as a consultant on British pronuciation for the English-language dictionaries published by Oxford University Press, including the Oxford English Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, for Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a publishing house which printed its first book in 1478, according to http://www.oup.com/about/history/, and is a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press. One of the dictionaries.
- ^ a b c This is the compromise IPA transcription used in the entries of Wikipedia articles. It covers most dialects of English.
- ^ Pronounced [ɾ] in some positions in GA and Australian English, and is possible in RP in words like butter, [ʔ] in some positions in English English, American English and Australian English, and [t̞] non-initially in Irish English.
- ^ Pronounced [ɾ] in some positions in GA and Australian English.
- ^ Pronounced [t̪] in some varieties of Irish English, merges with /f/ in some varieties of English English, and merges with /t/ in some varieties of Caribbean English.
- ^ Pronounced [d̪] in some varieties of Irish English, merges with /v/ in some varieties of English English, and merges with /d/ in some varieties of Caribbean English.
- ^ Marginal elsewhere.
- ^ Pronounced [ɱ] before f (e.g. symphony [ˈsɪɱfəni)
- ^ In some dialects (e.g. Brummie Brummie is a colloquial term for the inhabitants, accent and dialect of Birmingham, England, as well as being a general adjective used to denote a connection with the city, locally called Brum. The terms are all derived from Brummagem or Bromwichham, historical variants or alternatives to 'Birmingham') "ringer", "sing" etc are pronounced with an additional /ɡ/, like "finger": /ˈɹɪŋɡə/ rather than /ˈɹɪŋə/
- ^ [ɫ] does not occur in Irish English, and [l] does not occur in Australian, New Zealand, Scottish, or American English. RP and some other English accents, along with South African English, however, have clear [l] before vowels and dark [ɫ] elsewhere.
- ^ The tap [ɾ] is found in some varieties of Scottish and Irish English.
- ^ Some dialects, such as Scottish English Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. It may or may not include Scots depending on the observer, Irish English Hiberno-English – also known as Anglo-Irish and Irish English – is English as spoken in Ireland, partly the result of the interaction of the English and Irish languages. English was mainly brought to Ireland during the Plantations of Ireland in the sixteenth century[citation needed] and established itself in Dublin and in the area of Leinster, and much of the American South Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from Southern and Eastern Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and from the Atlantic coast to throughout most of Texas and Oklahoma dialects; see whine and wine The phonological history of English consonants is part of the phonological history of the English language in terms of changes in the phonology of consonants and voiceless labiovelar approximant The voiceless labiovelar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʍ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is W
- ^ /ɔː, aʊ, ɔɪ/ are never reduced. In some dialects, such as Australian, all reduced vowels become [ə].
- ^ See bad-lad split The trap-bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English , in the Boston accent, and in the Southern Hemisphere accents (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English), by which the Early Modern English phoneme /æ/ was lengthened in certain environments and ultimately merged with the long / for this distinction.
- ^ Often transcribed /a/ for RP, for example in dictionaries of the Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a publishing house which printed its first book in 1478, according to http://www.oup.com/about/history/, and is a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press. One of the.
- ^ See low back merger The father-bother merger is a merger of the Early Modern English vowels /ɑː/ and /ɒ/ that occurs in almost all varieties of North American English . In those accents with the merger father and bother rhyme, and Kahn and con are homophonous as [kɑn]. "Balm and "bomb" may also be homophones as /bɑm/: however this merger is for more discussion of this vowel in American English.
- ^ Becomes more centralized (often [ə]) in contexts that are not velar or palatal.
- ^ Often transcribed /e/ for RP, for example in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ a b c d e f See Fern-fir-fur merger The English language has undergone a number of phonological changes before the historic phoneme /r/. In recent centuries, most or all of these changes have involved merging of vowel distinctions for this distinction.
- ^ Sometimes transcribed for GA as [əɹ], especially in transcriptions that represent both rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations, as [ə(ɹ)].
- ^ a b In Canadian English, the raised diphthongs [ʌi] and [ʌu] are found before voiceless consonants, as in right [ɹʷʌit] and out [ʌut]; in other environments, [aɪ] and [aʊ] are used. In much of US English, this happens with /ʌɪ/. See Canadian raising Canadian raising is a phonetic phenomenon that occurs in varieties of the English language, especially Canadian English, in which diphthongs are "raised" before voiceless consonants . /aɪ/ (the vowel of "eye") becomes [ʌi], while the outcome of //aʊ// (the vowel of "loud") varies by dialect, with [ʌu] more common.
- ^ Alternative symbols used in British dictionaries are /ɛː/ (Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a publishing house which printed its first book in 1478, according to http://www.oup.com/about/history/, and is a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press. One of the) and /ɛə/.
- ^ >Roach & 2004 (241-243 This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent English language pronunciations), pp. 21-22, 25-26. Roach notes that many people in England use /ɔː/ for this vowel, but also that RP is supposed to distinguish between maw /mɔː/ and moor /mʊə/, tore /tɔː/ and tour /tʊə/, paw /pɔː/ and poor /pʊə/.
See also
- "Vowel wheel" The diagram is a subjective, kinesthetic impression of the position of the mouth while pronouncing monophthongs which occur in broad transcription of General American English: the position of the mouth perceived synaesthetically as a vector pointing in a certain direction. In the diagram the vectors are shown as spokes. , based on Kinesthetic - a subjective schematic of English English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and of the United States since the mid 20th century, it has become the lingua franca in many parts of the world. It is vowel sounds as pronounced in a General American accent General American is an accent of American English. Within American English, General American and accents approximating it are contrasted with Southern American English, several Northeastern accents, and other distinct regional accents and social group accents like African American Vernacular English.
- NATO phonetic alphabet The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. Though often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets have no connection to phonetic transcription systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet. Instead, the NATO alphabet assigns code words - also known as the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet or military alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet is often confused with the IPA because of the occurrence of "phonetic" in its name. However, the NATO alphabet is a cipher In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm for performing encryption and decryption — a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative term is encipherment. In non-technical usage, a “cipher” is the same thing as a “code”; however, the concepts are distinct in cryptography. In classical cryptography, of the Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, and was initially developed by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language, while the IPA strives for one-to-one representation of the sounds of all spoken languages.
- Phonetic alphabets The usual name of the script is given first ; the name of the language(s) in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying annotations for the script may also be provided
- Pronunciation respelling for English Pronunciation respelling is a type of notation system used to convey the pronunciation of words, in a language which doesn't have a phonemic orthography . Respelling systems are meant to be easy for native readers to understand, but do not represent phonetic differences between English accents or dialects. English dictionaries have used various
- SAMPA chart for English
- English phonology English phonology is the study of the phonology of the English language. Like all languages, spoken English has wide variation in its pronunciation both diachronically and synchronically from dialect to dialect. This variation is especially salient in English, because the language is spoken over such a wide territory, being the predominant
References
- Gimson, A. C. Alfred Charles Gimson was an English phonetician. He was known to generations of students and colleagues simply as 'Gim' (1980). An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English (3rd edn. ed.). London: Edward Arnold. ISBN 0-7131-6287-2.
- Harrington, J.; Cox, F.; Evans, Z. (1997). "An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels". Australian Journal of Linguistics 17: 155–84. doi The Digital Object Identifier System is a managed system for persistent identification of content-related entities on digital networks. These entities may be content items (digital files, physical objects, abstract works), or any related entities in a content transaction (e.g. licenses, parties, etc.). "DOI" is sometimes used to mean the:10.1080/07268609708599550.
- Kenyon, John Samuel John Samuel Kenyon was an American linguist. He graduated from Hiram College in 1898 and taught there as a professor of English from 1916 to 1944, when he retired and became an emeritus professor until his death. Together with Thomas A. Knott, he wrote A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English (1944), still regarded as a classic guide to (1950). American Pronunciation (10th ed.). Ann Arbor: George Wahr.
- Kenyon, John S. John Samuel Kenyon was an American linguist. He graduated from Hiram College in 1898 and taught there as a professor of English from 1916 to 1944, when he retired and became an emeritus professor until his death. Together with Thomas A. Knott, he wrote A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English (1944), still regarded as a classic guide to; Knott, Thomas A. (1944/1953). A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English Kenyon and Knott is the informal name for A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, first published in 1944 by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas A. Knott. It provides a phonemic transcription of General American pronunciations of words, using symbols largely corresponding to those of the IPA. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster. ISBN 0-87779-047-7.
- Schneider, Edgar W.; Kortmann, Bernd (2004). A Handbook of Varieties of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017532-0.
- Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (2): 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768
- Wells, J. C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (2nd edn. ed.). Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited. ISBN 0-582-36468-X.
External links
- Learning the IPA for English, (Standard American English)
- Online keyboard with MP3 sound files for IPA symbols
- IPA chart with AIFF sound files for IPA symbols
- IPA chart with MP3 sound files for all IPA symbols on the chart (limited version is available to anyone)
- The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2005) Symbols for all languages are shown on this one-page chart.
- lexconvert a GPL command-line program to convert between Unicode IPA and the ASCII notations of various English speech synthesizers
- LONGMAN Dictionary of Contemporary English ONLINE uses IPA.
- Online IPA editor for English
- Online/Offline IPA editor for English
- IPA transcription systems for English — discussion by John C. Wells of RP transcriptions
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