Quick help link?

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sat May 12 13:34:03 UTC 2007


That's Evan Kirshenbaum's system, which can be compared to SAMPA and
other representations here:

http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html


On 5/12/07, Orion Montoya <gorion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://alt-usage-english.org/ipa/ascii_ipa_combined.shtml#symbols is
> one reference; for your example, it yields:
>
> this /DIs/
> thin /TIn/
> put /pUt/
> putt /pVt/
>
> On 5/12/07, GLL <guy1656 at opusnet.com> wrote:
> > Could anyone send me a URL for how language sounds are represented in standard
> > ASCII text characters? (Example: how do you note the differences in 'th' in
> > 'this' vs. 'thin,' the 'u' in 'put' vs 'putt,' etc.)
>

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