Alfred's IPA Made Easy

Alfred's IPA Made Easy
Title Alfred's IPA Made Easy PDF eBook
Author Anna Wentlent
Publisher Alfred Music
Pages 67
Release 2014-02-12
Genre Music
ISBN 1470624230

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How many years has it been since your last diction class? This handy guidebook is an easy reference for the symbols used in IPA: what they look like and how they are pronounced. Example words for every symbol are included in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. And an online resource includes recorded demonstrations of every sound. A clear and concise tool for singing in foreign languages, equally useful in the choir room and the vocal studio.

Alfred's IPA Made Easy Poster Set

Alfred's IPA Made Easy Poster Set
Title Alfred's IPA Made Easy Poster Set PDF eBook
Author Anna Wentlent
Publisher Alfred Music
Pages 0
Release 2018-04
Genre
ISBN 9781470640880

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This set of full-color 9" x 12" cardstock posters provides a practical tool for teaching the International Phonetic Alphabet and uniform vowel formation. Each poster displays one of the primary vowel sounds, including its IPA symbol, pronunciation, and example words in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, or Spanish. Plus, an online resource offers recorded demonstrations of every sound. Equally useful for choral rehearsal rooms and vocal studios!

Phonetic Symbol Guide

Phonetic Symbol Guide
Title Phonetic Symbol Guide PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 359
Release 2013-02-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0226924882

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An indispensable comprehensive reference guide to the phonetic alphabet symbols, revised and expanded. 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. Praise for the First Edition of Phonetic Symbol Guide “A useful and convenient reference work in dictionary form.” —Marc Picard, Canadian Journal of Linguistics “Pullum and Ladusaw have compiled a unique . . . and very enjoyable book. . . . I expect that this guide will prove to be very useful to very many people.” —Keren D. Rice, Phonology “The attention to detail is exemplary, as is the clarity of exposition. . . . The authors have produced a book in which there is much to be admired.” —Richard Coates, Journal of Linguistics

The Early Alphabet

The Early Alphabet
Title The Early Alphabet PDF eBook
Author John F. Healey
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 68
Release 1990-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780520073098

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00 In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages. In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages.

International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers

International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers
Title International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers PDF eBook
Author Joan Wall
Publisher Pst Records
Pages 240
Release 1989
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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"It is a manual where students compare and contrast words to hear specific sounds, read and write IPA transcriptions, read the sounds of nonsense words (which lays the foundation for reading foreign language transcriptions), become aware of the articulators and how they produce each sound, and sing examples for greater awareness for how to handle each sound while singing."--Page [4] of cover.

Marshallese Alphabet

Marshallese Alphabet
Title Marshallese Alphabet PDF eBook
Author Lori Phillips
Publisher Bess Press
Pages 64
Release 2004
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9781573062213

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This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and childrens' artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each hardcover book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations. The series was co-published with Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, a non-profit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education across the Pacific.

A Handbook on International Phonetic Alphabet

A Handbook on International Phonetic Alphabet
Title A Handbook on International Phonetic Alphabet PDF eBook
Author Suresh Ponnurangam
Publisher Independently Published
Pages 52
Release 2019-01-21
Genre
ISBN 9781794190740

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Among the four skills of a language - listening, speaking, reading and writing, much magnitude is dedicated to writing and reading. Sporadically, a few minutes are spared to speaking and listening. It is ineluctably true that listening-speaking function plays a dynamic responsibility in verbal communication where de rigueur pronunciation is the venture for both the speaker and listener. Pronunciation is a paramount skill in any language because, successful communication possibly incomplete without proper pronunciation. In English, pronunciation is a substantial skill, it is as important as vocabulary and grammar for intelligible communication. But for ages, it has been one of the hard nuts to crack for many non-native speakers. Many learners and speakers feel that it is a very challenging skill to master.Though it was disregarded in the past, today learner's started understanding the significance of pronunciation. This attitude has emanated mainly due to globalization. English is a mandate skill and an important medium of communication in every industry and business. So, it is necessary to speak the language which is intelligible to everyone around the globe. The interlocutor comprehends the speaker not based on the words, but how effectively it is spoken. Every word is understood based on the tone or sound first than the word itself. Therefore, the tone must be appropriate for clear understanding, otherwise it may mainspring bewilderment and cause communication breakdown. Today, in this highly competitive English-speaking world, clarity in pronunciation is a demand for flawless communication. Although, English has twenty-six alphabet, it brings about forty-four phonemes (speech sounds). Every sound is personified by unique phonemic symbols; International Phonetic Alphabet. Therefore, words are pronounced based on the phonemic symbol. These symbols stand as a formula in order to pronounce words properly. So, one must learn and master the symbols and its sounds to speak perfect English. English is the universal language and everyone shares the same words, phrases and sentences to communicate each other. But when we speak to the native speakers and some ESL speakers struggle to understand us which is mainly due to the non-standard pronunciation of English words. Some of the primary and undeniable causes for this state is the lack of exposure on pronunciation skills.Most of us are not exposed to International Phonetic Alphabet starting from school till higher education. Only very few stresses the importance of proper pronunciation skills and the necessity for proper communication. Even today, majority of the English learners taught to pronounce words based on the spelling. Enough awareness on pronunciation skills is neglected to the ESL learners and speakers. This workbook is intended to enhance the ESL learners with the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols. This book will help them to master the phonetic symbols with examples. This exposure enable them to learn to pronounce English words appropriately. This book is designed for all level of learners.