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Computer Codes for Phonetic Symbols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

John H. Esling  and
Harry Gaylord
John H. Esling
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3045, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4, Canada
Harry Gaylord
Affiliation:
Alfa Informatica, Groningen University, Postbox 716, Groningen NL-9700AS, The Netherlands
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The process of assigning computer codes to phonetic symbols began when the 1989 Kiel Convention of the International Phonetic Association was called to revise the Association's alphabet. The Workgroup on Computer Coding formed at that time had the task of determining how to represent the IPA alphabet numerically, and of developing a set of numbers referring to IPA symbols unambiguously. This involved assembling phoneticians who work with computer representations of phonetic symbols, and communicating with specialists in computer coding to gauge the fit between the phonetician's perspective on symbol usage and the non-phonetician's understanding of how to identify and use phonetic symbols. Prior to Kiel, a collection of practical approaches to coded representations was outlined in JIPA (Esling 1988), which dealt mainly with keyboard assignments of characters.

Type
Phonetics software for Personal Computers
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , December 1993 , pp. 83 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1993

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