2.8: Describing Speech Sounds- the IPA
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This unit introduces the International Phonetic Alphabet, a system for accurately transcribing speech sounds. The IPA is useful because it is unambiguous: each symbol always represents the same sound, and each sound is always represented by the same symbol.
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Check Yourself
1. The vowel sounds in the words
neat
and
spread
are both spelled “ea”. Do the vowels in the two words sound the same as each other or different?
2. Are the final sounds in the words
face
and
mess
the same as each other or different?
3. Are the first sounds in the two words
gym
and
gum
the same as each other or different?
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