Ways of systematically indicating the sounds of speech in writing.
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Is there any symbol to represent an unknown vowel?
Is there any symbol to represent a vowel?
Is there any symbol to represent a constant?
For example "bog", "bat" and "bag" can be represented by b[v][c] or b✦✧.
Udate:
In a paper I want to describe ...
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Does speech transcription change syntax/grammar?
Just a question out of curiosity. Before typing became commonplace, many writing communications must have been transcribed from dictation. My hypothesis is that certain syntax and grammar must change ...
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What is the proper way to write Hindi phonetically in English?
I've noticed that when Hindi is I guess transliterated phonetically transcribed to the English Alphabet many of the letters are doubled to represent the correct sound that one would make if you were ...
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IPA transcription of the American English “bunched” /r/
There are 2 common articulations of /r/ and /r̩/ in American English, one retroflex, and the other dorsal. This phone is called the molar or bunched r. It can be described roughly as a back-palatal or ...
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What transcription to reflect Hebrew script and phonetics?
I am currently learning modern Hebrew with simple material (Teach Yourself Hebrew). I would like to use a different transcription than the one offered in this book or in Omniglot to build up my ...
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How can I differentiate between syllable-initial [ɣ] and [ə] using Praat or other software?
I am currently studying Amdo Tibetan. In this language the voiced velar fricative [ɣ] is reported to occur as the first sound in some syllable-initial consonant clusters. More specifically, this sound ...
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Rules of Yale Romanization of Korean
This is kind of a specific question, though it appears there is no StackExchange forum for the Korean language...
What are the specific rules in Yale Romanization of Korean with regard to where to ...
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What do reversed and dotted tone letters mean?
The IPA uses the 5 tone-letters ˥,˦,˧,˨,˩. Unicode also has reversed (꜒,꜓,꜔,꜕,꜖) and dotted tone bars (꜈,꜉,꜊,꜋,꜌; ꜍,꜎,꜏,꜐,꜑). What are these characters used for?
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Is whispering transcribed in IPA?
When a language is being transcribed to IPA, is the whispering included in the transcription? If so, how?
I saw the Wikipedia mention about not being anything for whispering, but I was wondering if ...
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Cents symbol in phonology
In examining Chol's phonology, I came across the (old?) cents symbol ¢ (with a slanted line) as a phoneme symbol.
I have not been able to track what it corresponds to in IPA terms, but I suspect it's ...
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Automatic phonetic transcription of speech: is it still a difficult problem?
A friend was asking me why there aren't any programs that can analyze a user's pronunciation of words and then give feedback/suggestions.
Indeed, given an accurate phonetic transcription of a ...
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Software tools for transcribing speech
What is some good software I can use for listening to speech? I would like to be able to listen to a snippet of speech over and over again, and slow it down without changing the pitch, all with a ...
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Alternatives to IPA?
Are there any other graphic systems that attempt to be as complete as the International Phonetic Alphabet?
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Automated French/Italian/German to IPA transcription
I'm looking for a website or software that will take text written in a source language and produce a transcription in IPA. The languages I am interested in are French, Italian and German, but if you ...
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When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?
When should one use /fubar/ and when [fubar] when transcribing in IPA? What are the differences?
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How are syllabic consonants written in IPA?
Suppose that, in some hypothetical language, there were two different words:
/tump/
/tump/
What's the difference?, you might ask. In the first one, the word is one syllable long. In the second ...
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Is there a difference between /ɕ/ and /sʲ/?
Are /ɕ/ and /ʑ/ simply shorthand for /sʲ/ and /zʲ/ as with many of the possible diacritic combinations in IPA or are they different sounds? If they are the same, is there any good reason to use one ...
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Is there a difference between /d/ and /t̬/?
IPA contains diacritics for indicating voiceless (/x̥/) and voiced (/x̬/) sounds. There are also different symbols for many voiced/voiceless pairs, e.g. /d/ and /t/ or /g/ and /k/.
Is there a ...
