PHONETIC SYMBOL GUIDE

Phonetic Symbol Guideis a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages. This fully revised second edition incorporates the major revisions to the International Phonetic Alphabet made in 1989 and 1993. Also covered are the American tradition of transcription stemming from the anthropological school of Franz Boas; the Bloch/Smith/Trager style of transcription; the symbols used by dialectologists of the English language; usages of specialists such as Slavicists, Indologists, Sinologists, and Africanists; and the transcription proposals found in all major textbooks of phonetics. With sixty-one new entries, an expanded glossary of phonetic terms, added symbol charts, and a full index, this book will be an indispensable reference guide for students and professionals in linguistics, phonetics, anthropology, philology, modern language study, and speech science.

Preface Table of Entries Introduction Character Entries Diacritic Entries Glossary References Symbol Charts The Cardinal Vowels 1-8 The Cardinal Vowels 9-16 IPA Symbols for Unrounded Vowels IPA Symbols for Rounded Vowels Bloch and Trager's Vowel Symbols American Usage Vowel Symbols The Chomsky/Halle Vowel System American Usage Consonant Symbols IPA Consonant Symbols IPA Suprasegmental Symbols IPA Diacritics Language Index Subject Index Symbol Name Index