Nadav Elyada's Blog » Linguistics http://blog.nadav.org Tue, 17 May 2011 16:10:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Quiz Yourself on the IPA alphabet http://blog.nadav.org/archives/7 http://blog.nadav.org/archives/7#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:41:43 +0000 nadav http://www.nadav.org/?p=7 The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation used to represent the sounds of spoken languages. It is used by linguists to transcribe words into unambiguous written representations. The word transient, for instance, is often pronounced [ˈtrænʃənt] (or tran-shuhnt) but may also be pronounced [ˈtrænziənt] (or tranzee-uhnt). While the non-standard transcription (shown above in round brackets) is suitable for American English, it cannot represent all the sounds of other languages, such as Quechua.

A couple of years ago I’ve thrown together a game that helped my friend Eran and I study for the Israeli equivalent of the SAT exam. While that game cannot be made public because of legal issues, I have since adapted the game to help study the IPA alphabet. Many of the advanced features are broken, but it’s still mostly usable.

It was written in PHP over a few hours, and has quite a few of bugs. It’s no longer being developed. Click here to check it out.

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