Phonetic Symbol Guide - Second Edition (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed)

"Phonetic Symbol Guide" is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages.
This fully revised second edition incorporates the major revisions to the International Phonetic Alphabet made in 1989 and 1993. Also covered are the American tradition of transcription stemming from the anthropological school of Franz Boas; the Bloch/Smith/Trager style of transcription; the symbols used by dialectologists of the English language; usages of specialists such as Slavicists, Indologists, Sinologists, and Africanists; and the transcription proposals found in all major textbooks of phonetics.
With sixty-one new entries, an expanded glossary of phonetic terms, added symbol charts, and a full index, this book will be an indispensable reference guide for students and professionals in linguistics, phonetics, anthropology, philology, modern language study, and speech science.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1996
First published:	July 1996
Authors:	Geoffrey K. Pullum
Dimensions:	206 x 133 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	New ed of 2 Revised ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-68536-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)
LSN:	0-226-68536-5
Barcode:	9780226685366

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