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Modifications of the IPA chart

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Asher Laufer
Affiliation:
The Phonetics Laboratory, Hebrew Language Department, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Extract

As the IPA chart is published in so many places, and is used also by non-phoneticians, I suggest that we should revise it rarely and, when it is revised, try to make only minimal changes in the chart. Nonetheless, I think that the 1993 revision of the chart resulting from the most recent Council vote (IPA 1993) is not ideal, and a few minor changes are needed. When the time comes, I suggest that the Council should discuss the following six proposals.

Type
Phonetic Representation
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1995

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