Questions tagged [ipa]
The International Phonetic Alphabet: A Latin-based alphabet designed for transcribing all sounds of all languages.
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Why the phonetic /ɔ/ is used in totally two different position?
Why the phonetic /ɔ/ is related to the phonetic /ɑ/ and the phonetic /oʊ/ at the same time even though they're totally different in pronunciation?
/ɔ/&/ɑ/
/ɔ/
Awesome, autumn, Australia, Talk, ...
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What is the difference between these three IPA phonetics in American pronunciation?
"ɔ" Like (awesome, autumn, Australia),
"ɒ" Like (octopus, October, occupy),
"ɑ" Like (arm, art, argument).
I know it's going to be hard to explain them in writing, but ...
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What does the superscript x in Finnish IPA mean?
IPA transcriptions like /muːtːuɑˣ/ from here show a superscripted x. The Finnish Phonology Wiki page says, in the Sandhi section:
Gemination of a morpheme-initial consonant occurs when the morpheme ...
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Does double tone mean long vowel?
After looking into the IPA for some words in tonal languages, I am starting to see things like ăn (Vietnamese), which are transcribed with two like tone marks, like ʔan˧˧. What does it mean when two ...
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Are there languages which have h following a consonant, that contrasts with aspiration?
I am working on a conscript and want to make sure I can handle all of Earth's languages. In some Indian languages they have the aspirated consonants like bh like bhavya. It is basically a breathy b. ...
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Does the IPA have a symbol to mark a letter that can be dropped in pronunciation?
I would like to mark a letter in a syllable with some kind of symbol that denotes that the letter can be dropped. Is there a symbol for that in the phonetic alphabet?
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In the IPA transcription do I need to show the global fall/rise before or after the stressed syllable?
I put the global fall symbol (down arrow) after the stressed syllable because it makes more sense to me. The last content word in a though group is where final inflection usually occurs, the syllable ...
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is this sound [ɾ] or [ɹ]?
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my native language is claimed to have alveolar tap or trill as its rhotic sound but recently I've wondering if it's actually a plain alveolar approximant [ɹ] instead since I noticed that my [ɾ] ...
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Is it more correct to use the minor and major foot groups in the IPA than commas and periods?
I transcribed some phrases from TV. This is casual American connected speech:
As you can notice I'm using the | and || symbols instead of the commas and periods. Also, I do not show the question mark,...
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Is there a database that lists all ways of spelling IPA phonemes?
I'm looking for a list, database, table, etc. of different ways that IPA phonemes (like /f/) can be represented (e.g normally just f, but also the gh in cough).
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Why do many languages analyse [e̞] as /ɛ/?
I experience that most analyses of many languages that I know, in particular Swedish, (Flemish) Dutch, Norwegian and Icelandic, analyse the languages' short ⟨e⟩ as /ɛ/, while they sound a lot more ...
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Is there an IPA symbol to represent both primary or secondary stress?
I was just wondering if there is an IPA symbol to represent stress in general, be that primary or secondary stress, just one symbol for both?
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Full stops to indicate a syllable boundary?
Without syllable boundary:
ˈwʌt̚ ˈhæp ənd ||
With syllable boundary:
ˈwʌt̚ ˈhæp.ənd ||
However I have words that are two syllables and both syllables are stressed:
ˈsʌmˌθɪŋz‿ˈaʊt̚ ˈðɛəɹ ||
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Why do IPA pronunciations pronounce phones in two ways? 1st on their own. 2nd with a vowel /ɑ/ or schwa in front?
I use IPA and oral cavity videos (is this the correct term?) to master phonemes, while I learn second languages. Examples are
[ ʎ̝ ] voiced dorsal palatal lateral fricative, [ ʝ ] voiced dorsal ...
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What kind of stress is this?
I found the word "ice-free" is pronounced /ˈˌaɪsˈˌfri/ in Oxford English Dictionary, but what kind of stress is this? Should it be called 'there are two primary stresses and two secondary ...
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IPA symbol for a pause?
I started transcribing some phrases from TV and sometimes there are very short pauses between thoughts when longer phrases are pronounced, like the comma for instance. How can I represent the pauses ...
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The dark l sound followed by a vowel sound during linking
the dark L in English is at the end of a word such as "girl", "pencil" or when it is followed by a consonant sound such as "child".
I'm curious what is happening with the ...
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/ / vs [ ] - when to use which? [duplicate]
I'm a university student studying sound structure. It's a first-year course. No matter how many times it's explained to me in lectures, tutorials, help labs, or office hours -- I don't understand all ...
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Why is ʌ an open-mid back unrounded vowel?
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I've been studying the vowel chart recently and I don't understand why ʌ is an open-mid back unrounded vowel. Shouldn’t it be a short low central unrounded vowel like in the chart picture I ...
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Concise IPA dictionary
For decades I have used "A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English" by Kenyon and Knott as a concise and accessible tool in learning the IPA. The fact that it's still in print must mean ...
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Why is w not written as ʋ͡ɰ or ɰʷ in IPA? [closed]
For some reason w is used instead of ʋ͡+ɰ or ɰʷ I don't know why
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Is there any other Phonetic notation other than IPA? [duplicate]
I'm wondering is there any other Phonetic notation other than IPA — that is easy to understand by Native English speakers
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is this sound [j]? [closed]
is the sound in this recording [j]? or is it just [i]? I feel like all my post-vocalic /i/'s are Pronounced like [j] but I'm not sure.
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Does IPA characterize every discernable accent?
Can the IPA, or any other formal linguistic system, fully characterize every accent discernable by language speakers? By "accent" I mean regional variations in pronunciation – for example, ...
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What is the difference between <ᵊ> and <ə̆> in IPA?
what is the difference between the usage of these two symbols? aren't they basically the same thing?
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Transcription of Devanagari script
Indian languages have many similar sounds and Devanagari & IAST scripts uniquely distinguish these
For Example (not comprehensive) —
IAST (Devanagari)
t (त) and ṭ (ट)
th (थ) and ṭh (ठ)
d (द) and ...
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How does one transcribe a plosive that involves lip closure AND the velum sealing off the nasal cavity before releasing the air mostly thru the nose?
In the conlang I'm creating, I want the clusters /b/ + a nasal. When I say such a cluster, I find myself realizing the /b/ with simultaneous lip closure and the production of a stop consonant that ...
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What symbol, if any, signifies an audible nasal emission in the IPA?
I'm making a conlang and would like to include the consonant clusters /hm/ /hn/ /hɳ/ and /hŋ/ with /h/ realized as an audible nasal emission.
I don't have to worry about how these clusters would be ...
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What is the difference between [j w] and [i̯ u̯]?
The symbols [i̯] and [u̯] always confused me, like what makes them different from [j] and [w]?
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How did the j get the dʒ sound?
The j getting the dʒ is very weird, how did the letter j get the dʒ sound?
Why not a /j/ sound as in "yes"?
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is my Pronounciation of [ɤ] and french nasal vowels and [ɲ] correct?
Right now I'm trying to learn how to pronounce different vowel sounds in IPA and i wonder if I'm Pronouncing [ɤ] right.
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I've been trying to learning French for a long time and I wonder if my ...
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is this a schwa?
Today, out of interest I tried to unround the /o/ sound of my native language and I got this vowel sound, is this vowel a schwa?
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What is the phonetic transcription of the vowel sounds in these recordings?
I'm really interested what those vowels are phonetically, sorry if there's anything wrong with the audio, I recorded it with my phone.
recording 1:
https://voca.ro/1eAvg2BdKK0q
recording 2:
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What's the difference between a syllabic consonant and a schwa followed by a consonant?
I'm a native speaker of a language which has syllabic consonants, here are the examples
კლდე/k'lde, [kʼl̩dɛ] "cliff"
ქრთამი/krtami, [kʰɾ̩tʰami] "bribe"
ბრძენი/brdzeni, [bɾ̩d͡zɛni] &...
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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
ä
e and to a lesser extent:
ɤ
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œ. Do you concur? ...
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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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