In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

many languages in the world, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is defined to describe the pronunciation of every language in the world. In the ' IPA Chart ', you can hear the actual ...

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2003), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The vowels /i/ and /I/ are not contrastive before /r/ in American English, and the phonetics ...

Phonetics is all about studying the sounds we make when we talk. There are three main branches of this discipline: This is the study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication ...