Phonetic Symbol Guide
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Book Overview
Phonetic Symbol Guide is 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226685365
ISBN13:9780226685366
Release Date:July 1996
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:358 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Phonetic Symbol Guide
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
A very comprehensive guide to phonetic symbols used in IPA, including those for which approval has been withdrawn, & US usage. It might have been useful to include Unicode references & details of composite characters used for Aboriginal & other languages. On the whole the work is extremely clear & easy to use, though for my geriatric eyes a larger size font would have helped. Irreplaceable for any student of this branch of linguistics.
Very helpful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I have found this book to be a very helpful, well organized reference guide to phonetic symbols. My initial phonetic training was in the Americanist system, and though I now more commonly use IPA when I have to produce a phonetic transcription, the presence of Americanist symbols in this guide helps me make sure that I am choosing the right IPA symbol. While this book is certainly not a course in phonetics, students of linguistics will find it a handy reference once they have completed their initial training in phonetics. I wouldn't want to be without it.
Phonetic Symbol Guide
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Very helpful, and the author was cheerful when I contacted him via internet to let him know I heard about him from my linguistics prof.
This 2nd edition is even better, but...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This is a precious and useful reference book. It covers most of history of IPA and of the American usage(s) in transcription, with some minor gaps (e.g., the symbol for dental voiced affricate used by Gleason and Hall, the special use of reversed small capital U in Hockett, etc.). It is a trustworthy guide for the traditions of transcription it covers: I learned a lot about them. Some moot points of the new IPA are duly commented upon and clarified, too. The Continental European tradition, on the contrary, is only cursorily hinted at (e.g., Meillet-Cohen, Slavic linguistics, but not Dialectology and Linguistic Geography, both Romance and Germanic) and so is the tradition of Africanists (Beach and Doke are taken into account, but not, e.g., Guthrie). Being grateful to the authors for the service they paid to the community of linguists and anthropologists, might I hope for a little bit larger coverage in a next edition?
Anyone involved in phonetics needs this book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
A completely thorough guide to phonetics, including all symbols considered and ever used in the IPA, American system, and various specialized systems (such as those of eskimologists, etc.). An absolute must and a great improvement from the first edition.
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