Franklin also limited the remaining letters to one sound, “as every letter ought to be,” including vowels. In the phonetic alphabet, “long” vowel pronunciations are achieved using double ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA ... “broad” or “strangulated” vowels; “guttural” or “harsh” sounds; “sing ...

3. IT GREW FROM ABOUT 40 TO ALMOST 200 SYMBOLS. The first version of the IPA had 30 consonants and 13 vowels plus a few diacritics. There are now more than double the number of consonants and ...

Where are the vowels? “There are no long vowels in ... In the International Phonetic Alphabet, which assigns a character to different universal sounds, the Arabic “Qatar” is ...

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics ... while the long vowels did their merry chase.