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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: a guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (1999). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. ix+204.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2002

Caroline L. Smith
Caroline L. Smith
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Abstract

As stated in its Foreword, the Handbook is a ‘user’s manual’ for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It provides a variety of information about the philosophy and practice of IPA usage and in so doing, confronts a number of current issues in phonetics. But the goal of the Handbook remains resolutely practical, the intention being to give just ‘the information needed for getting to grips with the IPA’ (p. viii). Nonetheless, it provides much more information and discussion about transcription than the previous official source of information about the IPA, the 1949 Principles of the International Phonetic Association. The decision to produce a new Handbook was made at the 1989 Kiel Convention of the International Phonetic Association.

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Phonology , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , August 2000 , pp. 291 - 295
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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