Questions tagged [ipa]
The International Phonetic Alphabet: A Latin-based alphabet designed for transcribing all sounds of all languages.
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How does r-coloring impact phonological analysis?
Edit: I realized I asked this very confusingly. I think what I really should have said was, are there any phonemic implications to r-coloring? Or thinking about it slightly differently, is there a ...
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What are the sounds that define the r-controlled vowels?
For all the r-colored vowels like ɑr, ɔr, ɛr, and ɪr, I keep hearing this extra vowel sound in between the vowel and the r. This isn’t the case for ər/ɜr since this just sounds like the r sound to me, ...
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How to exactly pronounce IPA
I'm a native Korean speaker, and I somtimes have trouble pronuncing some of the sounds which is not used or not distinguished in Korean.
For example, ɛ and e are equivalent to Korean phoneme ㅐ and ㅔ. ...
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IPA confusion, difference between these vowels?
I am having trouble hearing the difference between these vowels based on this website for the IPA and would appreciate if someone could tell me the differences and how to pronounce them.
ʊ and ø
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Finding phonetic similarity of names in different languages
I am trying to come up with a way using Python to find phonetic similarities between how
differently written names with different meanings in different languages might sound alike. Names can be ...
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Why isn't there a [mj]/m̃ in the IPA?
We all know the nasal ɲ, found in a variety of languages including the Spanish ñ. However, instead of n, why not m or more specifically [mj]? Why are these 2 consonants not considered one, unlike [nj] ...
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Wikipedia sound samples: vocal fry?
In seems to me that in Wikipedia's sound samples for the vowel sounds, there's often some vocal fry, especially in the back vowels. Vowels like ɑ
æ
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Is there any articulatory difference between these two IPA symbols?
Is there an articulatory difference between the voiced palatal nasal [ɲ] sound and the nasalized voiced palatal approximant [j̃] sound?
If there is a diference, what is it? I ask that because in ...
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When enclosing a phonetical annotation, what are the differences between [] and //? [duplicate]
When enclosing a phonetical annotation, what are the differences between [] and //? Are they not completely equivalent?
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/t͡ʃ/ vs. /ʧ/ vs. /tʃ/
In English for example, the "ch" sound (as in China) is sometimes written as /t͡ʃ/, other times as /ʧ/ or simply as /tʃ/. Similarly, I have seen the German "tz" (e.g. Katze) ...
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How do you transcribe these sounds you make in IPA?
Uvular ejective fricative χʼ? I don’t know. It seems not.
https://youtu.be/3u65Dk1bqWg?t=584
https://youtu.be/d3oBs5TljNE?t=8193
https://youtu.be/B2FkJVj2hj4?t=39
https://youtu.be/quF-CDV3K68?t=223
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Has anyone ever ranked the prevalence of phones by number of speakers worldwide?
I'm interested in knowing the most-used and least-used phones worldwide. According to Wikipedia, the IPA charts about 140 pulmonic consonants, 80 non-pulmonic consonants, 30 co-articulated consonants, ...
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Does the orientation of the voiced uvular fricative IPA symbol (ʁ) not matter, or are these fonts buggy?
The symbol for voiced uvular fricative in IPA is ʁ (an inverted small uppercase letter "R"), but I have noticed that this symbol is not displayed consistently depending on where it is pasted ...
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Why does IPA have only finitely many symbols? Isn't the human voice box capable of producing a continuous range of sounds?
There are two things I've noticed:
Every language has only finitely many sounds in it
IPA, which is a notation for representing all possible sounds in all possible languages, has only finitely many ...
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How can I find IPA charts that pairs each language's phonemes, with a common word feat. that phoneme in that language?
How can I find equivalents to the following chart (for American English), but for the world's currently most spoken e-languages?
E.g., the chart for Modern German must SCHEMATICALLY map out each of ...
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Simple Way to Determine if IPA Words Rhyme (English)
As a follow-up to my question at Mathematics of Rhyme (perfect, slant), I have been able to map most English words to IPA using a mix of custom code and a dictionary stored at flancast90.github.io.
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Proper phonetic names and IPA symbols for Russian [i] in линия and English [i] in happy
They have [i] on both IPA:Russian wiki and IPA:English wiki
On the Russian page the example is линия and on the English page it's happy.
And in practice these are similar but clearly different sounds ...
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What is the difference between /ʎ/ and /l̠ʲ/?
As far as I can find the descriptions it appears that they're the same. Why would 2 different IPA characters used then?
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Is it possible to have the same symbol for different sounds in IPA?
It is said that in IPA, each symbol represents a unique sound. But on the Wikipedia page on the Voiceless Velar Fricative (/x/), I find these examples:
Hindustani 'ख़ुशी' /xuʃi:/ (sometimes खुशी, /...
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ʃ pronounced with tongue
Some people pronounce their [ʃ] not in the 'classic' way but by curving the tongue and bringing it forward toward the upper set of teeth.
Here's an audio example I've created.
My question: is there a ...
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Where are these Danish sounds in IPA?
I worked with a native Danish translator, using a simplified version of IPA for transcribing Danish words into their pronunciation. They pointed out 3 sounds that weren't covered by the system (which ...
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What is the difference between ðˤ and ðʕ in Arabic?
I am wondering if the emphatic and pharyngealized sounds of Arabic are the same thing as the letter followed by /ʕ/. So ðˤ, sˤ, tˤ, and dˤ would be ðʕ, sʕ, tʕ, and dʕ. If it's not the case, can you ...
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What is "˥˩" in the IPA?
While reading the Wikipedia page on voiced bilabial trill, I came across a transcription in the occurrence section which looks like:
[tʙ̩˥˩]
The word is from Lizu language and means 'bean'. What is ...
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Probability based algorithm to convert IPA into english language text
For a student job i'm creating a neural network-based method of determining the probability that two written names are referring to the same person (e.g. what is the probability that kelly m. refers ...
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order of tables in the IPA chart -- is there a reason?
I was told by a friend that the order of tables in the IPA chart is not completely arbitrary, but has some motivation to it. In particular, that C tables come before the V table, as features of C ...
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Breaking a word down into its constituent phonemes [duplicate]
How should the nonsense word 'frabjous' be broken down into its constituent phonemes (e.g. the consonant blend -fr)? I would like to determine how this word is regular in English phonotactics.
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Why are bilabial lateral sounds deemed impossible?
On the IPA consonant chart they are greyed out as impossible to occur. But I can easily clamp my tongue between my lips, or I can close only the center of my lips, either way leaving a narrow hole on ...
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How comprehensive is SLIPA?
I know that SLIPA is a first go around at making an IPA table for signed languages, but how comprehensive is it? The creator freely admits that his main exposure to sign languages is ASL, which ...
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Is there any word in other languages that begins with the urdu alphabet ṛē (ڑ)?
So in Urdu language there is no word starting with Ṛe "ڑ" IPA /ɽ/ but I think there may be some words in another language that begins with Ṛe "ڑ" or have similar sound.
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How do you bound a syllable / split a word into syllables programmatically?
What are the rules for bounding a syllable? I am trying to take IPA text and write software to automatically separate the syllables for the word. By trying I am still just thinking about how to do it. ...
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What is the IPA of the two-syllable r sound in English?
For example, the word "Emperor" in IPA on Wiktionary for General American is written /ˈɛmpɹɚ/. But that's kind of cheating because ɚ is basically /ɹ/ as far as I can tell. Yet, when you say ...
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Narrow Transcription: How is "very narrow allophonic" transcription identical to "impressionistic" transcription enabling something extra?
English: "check the lens well"
Phonetic (broad) transcription: /tʃɛkðəlɛnzwɛl/
Impressionistic narrow transcription: [tʃe̞ʔ͡kð̞əlɛ̆nzwæ̠ɫ]
(One) very narrow allophonic transcription: [...
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IPA Terminology--Articulatory Target versus Articulators
In phonetics (IPA) terminology, what is the difference between an Articulatory Target and an Articulator. I used to think that the former is just another name for the Passive Articulator or the Place ...
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What is the origin of the pronunciation difference between 'replicate' (noun) and 'replicate' (verb)?
In English, the noun 'replicate' is pronounced with a schwa (ə) at the end while the verb is pronounced with the diphthong 'eɪ'. The same is true for the word 'duplicate'. Is there a more general ...
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Intuitive phonemic transcription systems for various languages
When a text or video about pronunciation is aimed at the average reader, it often doesn't use the IPA to represent sounds. Instead, it might talk about the "AW" sound as in law, the "AH&...
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Pronunciation of double IPA consonants
Let's say an IPA pronunciation contains a double consonant, such as "dd" or "ss". Does that really mean this consonant should be pronounced twice?
There are examples where this ...
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Central – lateral dichotomy for labiodentals
In the IPA chart, there's no labiodental lateral approximant. The cell isn't even left blank, it's shaded out and therefore the articulation is judged impossible.
One of the explanations is (see, e.g.,...
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Is [ë̞] another symbol for [ə]?
I know that the diacritic ̈ is for centralization and ̞ for lowered. So when [e] is centralized, it becomes [ɘ] and when lowered it becomes [ə]. See the diagram:
If someone gives me the ...
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What is the exact position of the tongue for [ n ] in these circumstances?
Hi I am an English learner, and I recently had this question about pronouncing n sound. I understand the standard way of pronouncing n sound is to put my tongue behind the top teeth, however, when I ...
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What cues would you look for in this spectrogram to figure out the word? [closed]
(It is produced in American English and the word is one syllable. The time scale is arbitrary so feel free to ignore it.)
I was wondering what cues everyone would look for when reading this, and ...
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How can the continuum s-sʲ-ç-ɕ-ʃ-ʂ be described in technical terms?
To me, it seems clear that there is a continuum between this group of sounds, as all of them (apart from ç, which I will touch on later in the post) are sibilants, and the only difference between them ...
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Why does Polish have male and female accents?
This is particularly interesting to me as I can't seem to find any information on the topic, but, having listened to numerous Polish speakers from both sexes, the male─female pronounciational split is ...
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What is the difference between m̥, mʰ, and mʱ?
I am looking at Help:IPA/Nguni and Help:IPA/Welsh, and wondering what the exact difference is between these sounds, and if there are any good audio recordings (or if you can make one!) showing how ...
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What IPA sound is the danish "l"-ish sound as in "sidde"?
I have an ASCII system for writing sounds mapped to IPA letters, but I can't figure out what the "l" sound is as in Danish "sidde". It's pronounced sort of like (if I were to try ...
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What is the diacritic macron bellow (◌̱) used in the IPA [closed]
Well, I'm learning English, (I speak Spanish) sometimes I use the translator or the dictionary and several times I find this sign in the phonetic transcription, what am I supposed to do?
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Is it possible to automatically recognize a single syllable as its IPA transcription?
Is it possible to take a sound file as the input, in which there is a single syllable, and we can get the IPA transcription of the syllable automatically? If it is, how? Or to say is there already a ...
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[a̟]: advanced front vowel?
I saw [a̟] in PHOIBLE and thought "okay, it's an advanced front vowel-- hold on, it's already in the front." Is it an error in PHOIBLE or an error in my linguistic knowledge? What effect ...
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When we breathe through the nose, do we normally make an unvoiced uvular nasal?
I was thinking about what sounds we make when we breathe through our nose. I realized that we make a sound that is very far back, farther than the velar nasal. Do we normally make this sound, and is ...
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What do you call double consonants that are not affricates?
For example, the IPA Help page for English lists these consonants:
hw whine
lj lute
nj new
sj consume
θj enthuse
zj Zeus
Is there a name to refer to this type of double consonants?
I'm thinking &...
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IPA diacritic for "no oral release" of nasals
Is there a diacritic in IPA for explicitly marking a nasal consonant as orally released (like coda nasals in careful speech in English) or having no oral release (like coda nasals in Cantonese)?
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