Phonetic Symbol Guide

About this book

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 worlds 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.