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The PHONASCII system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

George D. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Abstract

The Journal has received this newsletter which describes a well-developed system for the computer coding of phonetic symbols. Although the account shows a bias towards the transcription of English, the system does provide for an unusually wide range of prosodic codes and of diacritic symbols, including some for which the current International Phonetic Alphabet makes no provision. Given the Journal's active interest in the subject of computer coding of phonetic symbols, and the wish to encourage further debate and comment in our pages, we are publishing this particular newsletter in its entirety. In the discussion of the symbols, it is necessary to be able to distinguish ‘l’ (lower case ‘l’) from ‘i’ (upper case ‘i’). We have therefore used the serifed typeface of the original for the citation of the symbol forms (—Ed.).

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1988

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