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John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist.Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics. [1]
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London. [1] It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, and extend SAMPA to cover the entire range of characters in the 1993 version of International ...
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Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.
Used to pronounce the multigraphs dy and diy in native words and j in loanwords outside Spanish. For more information, see Tagalog phonology. Tatar: Mishar Dialect [11] can / җан [d͡ʒɑn] 'soul' In standard Tatar (Kazan dialect), the sound for letter c (җ) is ʑ . Turkish: acı [äˈd͡ʒɯ] 'pain' See Turkish phonology: Turkmen: jar
Cardinal vowel; Central consonant; Central vowel; Checked vowel; Click consonant; Close back rounded vowel (u); Close back unrounded vowel (ɯ); Close central rounded vowel (ʉ); Close central unrounded vowel (ɨ)
The International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. [1] The following tables present pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants.
Most commonly, following the work of phonetician John C. Wells, a lexical set is a class of words in a language that share a certain vowel phoneme. As Wells himself says, lexical sets "enable one to refer concisely to large groups of words which tend to share the same vowel, and to the vowel which they share". [ 1 ]