Thursday, September 15, 2011

Helpful Websites for IPA Symbols and Transcription

Here are several helpful websites for your use in studying the IPA symbols and production (place and manner of articulation).  Some of them give you the audio links so that you can hear the phoneme pronounced, and others are good for copying the symbols to then paste into your blogs or elsewhere.

The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet
http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
This site has all the IPA vowels and consonants, along with sample words using the sounds, and you can click on the audio file to hear the words pronounced.

You can also copy the symbols and paste them into your blog post for your upcoming assignment.



IPA Phonetic Chart
http://www.esl-lounge.com/pronunciation/phonetic-chart.shtml
This site has consonant and vowel charts with large, clear symbols that you can easily see.


Basic Phonetic Transcription
http://uwf.edu/tprewitt/sounddescription.htm
This site has several "Sammy" figures with details about the way we use our mouths and throats for sound production.

They are using some other phonetic symbols - so don't worry about them - just use the ones we have in our book.



IPA Charts
http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/
There are many phonetic charts on this site, and you can click on the charts, then click on the symbols to hear the pronunciation.


Type IPA phonetic symbols
http://ipa.typeit.org/
On this site, you can use the special keyboard on the site to type special phonetic symbols (and you can combine this with a regular keyboard for the IPA symbols that are the same as regular alphabet letters. You can then copy and paste these symbols into other places, such as blog posts or documents.

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