History of the English Phonetic Association

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History of the English Phonetic Association

General principle of teh IPA

Speech segment

Provide one letter for each distinctive sound

IPA Revisions

The alphabet was last revised in 2005

Addition of four letters in 1993

The IPA convention Kiel in 1989

The alphabet was revised so as to be uniform across languages in 1888

Foundation

French linguist Paul Passy

Group of French and British languaje teachers

1886

The Sounds of English: Phonetic Chart

Brackets and Phonemes

/slashes/ are used to mark off phonemes

[ Square brackets] are used for phonetics details of the pronuntiation

IPA symbols

19 additional signs

31 diacritics

107 consonants and vowels