Sorting the IPA alphabet

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 21 20:02:45 UTC 2011


And all three letters can stand for India Pale Ale, the official brew of the phonetics association.  (Or it should be.)

LH

On Aug 21, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Gordon, Matthew J. wrote:

> Not necessarily since the A in IPA can stand for Association.
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> I see that the class that includes "{P/V}IN number" and "HPV virus" has a new (to me, at least) member.
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> Neal
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> On Aug 21, 2011, at 11:16 AM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>> Does the IPA alphabet have a defined sort order, as the Latin
>> alphabet does?  Can I find its definition somewhere?
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>> Joel
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