Each symbol in this alphabet represents a different sound. See if you can decode some words using some of the IPA symbols. As a class, you will review how some consonants shown on this page are ...

The practice of copying a word and sticking a shm- onto it came ... They are rules in the making, not quite resolved. Here are five phonetic pitfalls of shm- reduplication. The shm- goes before ...

That practice ended in 1971 when the journal was renamed the Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Above, you can see the beginning of an article in French on "Ecriture Phonétique ...