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    Introduction To Phonetics: International Phonetic Alphabet

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    The document introduces the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which assigns a unique symbol to each distinct sound in human speech. This provides a consistent way to describe and compare sounds within and across languages. Without the IPA, it would be difficult to accurately discuss pronunciation since spelling does not reliably represent sounds and different languages have varying sounds. The IPA aims to eliminate the inconsistencies of spelling with a one-symbol to one-sound correspondence, allowing sounds to be precisely identified and compared across all languages.

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    The document introduces the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which assigns a unique symbol to each distinct sound in human speech. This provides a consistent way to describe and compare sounds within and across languages. Without the IPA, it would be difficult to accurately discuss pronunciation since spelling does not reliably represent sounds and different languages have varying sounds. The IPA aims to eliminate the inconsistencies of spelling with a one-symbol to one-sound correspondence, allowing sounds to be precisely identified and compared across all languages.

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    The document introduces the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which assigns a unique symbol to each distinct sound in human speech. This provides a consistent way to describe and compare sounds within and across languages. Without the IPA, it would be difficult to accurately discuss pronunciation since spelling does not reliably represent sounds and different languages have varying sounds. The IPA aims to eliminate the inconsistencies of spelling with a one-symbol to one-sound correspondence, allowing sounds to be precisely identified and compared across all languages.

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    Introduction to Phonetics

    International Phonetic Alphabet

    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) attempts to represent each sound of human speech with a single symbol

    Consistent way to talk about sounds in other languages


    Spanish sound: halfway between a b sound and a v sound
    uva grape

    French sound: halfway between an ee sound and an oo sound


    su known

    Consistent way to talk about sounds within a language


    Do these words begin with the same sound?
    think though

    How about these?


    cat kangaroo

    BEWARE OF SPELLING
    Letters speech sounds
    Dont be fooled by how words are spelled! Practice saying them out loud and listening to yourself. How many speech sounds (NOT LETTERS!) are in the following?
    she cave six using

    Side note: why is spelling so messy?


    Spelling is mostly static, but languages are constantly changing (knight) Spelling of the word in the language it was borrowed from Spelling conventions when the word was borrowed or coined Etc

    Why we need the IPA: Summary


    Same symbol always has the same sound
    Within a language: (unlike Phil and fish) Across all languages: (Spanish boda and English their)

    Different symbols always have different sounds


    (Unlike sound and cause)

    Gives us a consistent way to compare different sounds


    In what way are feel and veal different? In what way are they the same?

    No silent letters or extra ones


    Unlike spike

    IPA phonetic symbols will be in brackets: [ ] [k] is a speech sound, not the letter k! Why in a chart form?

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