International Phonetic Alphabet

n. Abbr. IPA

A phonetic alphabet and diacritic modifiers sponsored by the International Phonetic Association to provide a uniform and universally understood system for transcribing the speech sounds of all languages.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

(Phonetics & Phonology) a series of signs and letters propagated by the Association Phonétique Internationale for the representation of human speech sounds. It is based on the Roman alphabet but supplemented by modified signs or symbols from other writing systems, and is usually employed in its revised form of 1951. Abbreviation: IPA

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Interna′tional Phonet′ic Al′phabet

a set of symbols and modifying signs devised by the International Phonetic Association to provide a universally understood system for transcribing the speech sounds of any language. Abbr.: IPA

International Phonetic Alphabet

A system developed during the late 19th century to symbolize every sound used in human language accurately. Used in the scientific study of pronunciation.

Translations

mezinárodní fonetická abeceda

Διεθνές Φωνητικό Αλφάβητο

Alfabeto Fonético Internacional

tarptautinė fonetinė abėcėlė

Internationaal Fonetisch Alfabet

alfabetul fonetic internaţional

международный фонетический алфавит

International Phonetic Alphabet

n → internationale Lautschrift

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Get the message across in a simple way by taming wayward English; THE PROFESSIONALS

Appendices include the international phonetic alphabet and its extended set of symbols.

An introduction to the science of phonetics

DG knows that she has problems with phonological awareness and she is in the process of learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols for English.

Dyslexia and foreign language learning

Sidney Allen (4) in which he uses symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. According to this system, both cs in cepacia would be pronounced hard (like English k); the first vowel, e, would be long (approximately as in Received Pronunciation of gate); the second, a, would also be long (approximately as in RP father); i (as in dip) and a would be short; and the stress would fall on the second syllable.

Cicero and Burkholderia cepacia: what's in a name? (Another Dimension)

It discusses using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a teaching strategy to facilitate correct pronunciation.

Linguistic Discrimination: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Professors might consider using the phonetic alphabet (the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA) and having their students learn it as well.

ENHANCING MULTICULTURALISM FOR NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS

Contrary to what one might suppose, the guide gives considerably more than merely an inventory of the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet: it provides in addition symbols from the more heterogeneous tradition of American usage, as well as those of Slavicists and specialists of other groups of languages.

Phonetic Symbol Guide

Such a recording is especially important, because Artmann transcribes these poems in his own written version of the dialect spoken in the Vienna district of Breitensee and not according to the basic rules of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a system the outside reader could re-create.

Achtundachtzig ausgewahlte Gedichte

The book uses the International Phonetic Alphabet throughout and the introduction begins with a brief account of phonetics to help the reader gain some confidence in handling the symbols.

Singing Early Music: the Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance