How do I do a phonetic transcription via an IPA chart? ?
Q. How do I do a phonetic transcription via an IPA chart? ?
Asked by aznxbabi88 - Wed Sep 10 23:56:12 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The site below has the full IPA chart. This chart has symbols for individual sounds, not letters, and can be used to write any language phonetically. The idea is to listen to a person speaking and to write down the sounds they make using IPA symbols. It may be easier to tape the speaker so you can replay sounds you're not sure of.
Answered by #7 - Thu Sep 11 03:07:37 2008

Why do the same vowels appear in different places on IPA vowel area chart?
Q. Please take a look at these two IPA vowel charts: On the first one the upside-down V represents an open-mid back vowel and on the second it represents an open-mid central vowel. The same kind of thing applies to most of the sounds. Why do they change position? Why are they represented with the same symbol if they are different sounds? Surely this makes it difficult to read IPA transcription? Does the fact that they are written with the same symbol have some kind of significance? Please help, I'm really confused! Many thanks!
Asked by quesuerte! - Sat Feb 7 20:00:07 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The first chart represents the official IPA chart of "cardinal vowels". This is a kind of idealized representation of all basic vowel sounds known to be possible in human speech. And does not technically represent any particular language The second chart is specific to one language in this case English (I believe). The symbols will be in different positions because in English the sound represented by each symbol may actually be made in a slightly different part of the mouth (and therefore have a slightly different quality) than the idealized cardinal vowels. FYI. The "upside-down V is called "Wedge"
Answered by zotdirector - Sat Feb 7 20:06:32 2009

brazilian portuguese vowel sounds?
Q. anyone have an IPA chart with brazilian portuguese vowels phonemes? i have a chart for the consonants already remember i am looking for brazilian portuguese, not european
Asked by amber - Mon Nov 26 22:35:19 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Ola, Amber! I have the IPA chart...and a chart showing how those phonemes are spelt in BP. Is that what you're looking for? Scroll almost halfway down to "Pronunciation of the Portuguese of Brazil": Official IPA charts (scroll down for vowels): This one's clickable (although I haven't figured out why that's good): If you want sound files for those phonemes and/or are learning Portuguese, click on my icon and email me!
Answered by "Awful Portuguese" - Tue Nov 27 07:14:15 2007