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  2. History of the International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Association was founded in Paris in 1886 under the name Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon (The Phonetic Teachers' Association), a development of L'Association phonétique des professeurs d'Anglais ("The English Teachers' Phonetic Association"), to promote an international phonetic alphabet, designed primarily for English, French, and German, for use in schools to ...

  3. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    When the IPA is used for broad phonetic or for phonemic transcription, the letter–sound correspondence can be rather loose. The IPA has recommended that more 'familiar' letters be used when that would not cause ambiguity. [13] For example, e and o for [ɛ] and [ɔ], t for [t̪] or [ʈ], f for [ɸ], etc.

  4. Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International ...

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    Equivalent on the IPA ˀ: Modifier glottal stop creaky voice/ glottalization ̰: Equivalent on the IPA ̴: Combining middle tilde velarization ˠ: Equivalent on the IPA ˉ , ˗ , ˍ Modifier high, mid and low macron behind high, mid and low-level tone or intonation removed ˭ , ₌ Modifier high and low equals sign behind

  5. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    However, this earlier Middle English vowel /a/ is itself the merger of a number of different Anglian Old English sounds: the short vowels indicated in Old English spelling as a , æ and ea ; the long equivalents ā , ēa , and often ǣ when directly followed by two or more consonants (indicated by ā+CC, ǣ+CC, etc.);

  6. Visible Speech - Wikipedia

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    In 1867, Alexander Melville Bell published the book Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabetics.This book contains information about the system of symbols he created that, when used to write words, indicated pronunciation so accurately, that it could even reflect regional accents. [5]

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    The coach seems to be off to a strong start in establishing support through his staff, as offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels will be called on to adapt his scheme to accentuate Maye's mobility.

  8. Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Franklin proposed the use of doubled letters to represent what he called long vowels, represented by modern phonemes in IPA thus: long / ɔː / versus short / ɒ / (or, in his notation, versus ), long / eɪ / versus short / ɛ / (ee versus e), and long / iː / for short / ɪ / (ii versus i).

  9. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.