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Editor's introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Anthony Bladon
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Revising the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a pressing task which should find its natural forum for debate in this Journal, above all others. Elsewhere (Ladefoged (1987); and in our own pages, Ladefoged and Roach (1987)) the President and Secretary of the International Phonetic Association issue a call to arms for this task, drawing attention to some preliminary questions on which the Association needs to have a clear view. One question is that of the IPA's constituency: who are the users of the IPA, and what are their different needs for a phonetic alphabet? To help find out, the Association hopes to canvas as wide a population of IPA users as possible, drawing from non-members as well as members.

Type
Revision of the IPA
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , July 1987 , pp. 8 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1987

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References

Ladefoged, P. (1987). Revising the International Phonetic Alphabet. To appear in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Tallinn).Google Scholar
Ladefoged, P. and Roach, P. (1987). The future of the IPA. To appear in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Centenary Volume, 16.Google Scholar