A Revised Phonetic Alphabet proposed by the Maritimes Dialect Survey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10263117 |
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| Authors | Hannah R Wilson (Western University, corresponding author), H Rex Wilson, Murray G Wanamaker (University of Winnipeg), A M Kinloch, A J Kinloch (0000-0002-8752-7184, University of New Brunswick) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-35 |
| Publication date | 1973-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1003 • E-ISSN: 1475-3502 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0025100300000657 |
| OpenAlex | W1989306381 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The origins of this Revised Phonetic Alphabet lie in the attempts of the Maritimes Dialect Survey to find an alphabet which would allow a computor to handle phonetic data readily and conveniently. This necessitated planning an alphabet which could be adapted to an 88-place ‘golf ball’ which could then be used with, for example, an IBM Selectric typewriter; that is to say, the proposed alphabet had to consist of not more than 88 ‘elements’. In fact, the Revised Phonetic Alphabet described herein consists of 85
Alphabet · IBM · Linguistics · Physics · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Highly cited | No |
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