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What About The Phonetic Font I Already Use?: Vowels

The document discusses various fonts that can be used for phonetic transcription, including Lucida Sans Unicode, MS Mincho, Arial Unicode MS, and legacy single-byte phonetic fonts. It provides URLs to download Unicode fonts like Arial Unicode MS for free from Microsoft. The document also explains how to set up AutoCorrect codes for phonetic symbols using SAMPA codes as a convention, and provides a table of basic SAMPA codes for vowels, consonants, and diacritics.

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What About The Phonetic Font I Already Use?: Vowels

The document discusses various fonts that can be used for phonetic transcription, including Lucida Sans Unicode, MS Mincho, Arial Unicode MS, and legacy single-byte phonetic fonts. It provides URLs to download Unicode fonts like Arial Unicode MS for free from Microsoft. The document also explains how to set up AutoCorrect codes for phonetic symbols using SAMPA codes as a convention, and provides a table of basic SAMPA codes for vowels, consonants, and diacritics.

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As well as Lucida Sans Unicode, there are one or two other Unicode fonts available that include the

IPA symbols. If you happen to have a Japanese version of Windows, you will probably find that you have a font called MS Mincho. As well as thousands of an!i "#hinese$ characters, this %.&&'( font also has most of the IPA characters, thou)h some are not very well drawn. *owever, there are only a handful of Spacin) 'odifier Letters and no #ombinin) +iacritical 'ar,s at all. -he rest of us can download this font free as part of the ./ffice 0P -ool1 Japanese Lan)ua)e Pac,2 available at http133office.microsoft.com3downloads3 . -he lar)est Unicode font is Arial Unicode MS. It runs to 45.6 '( and includes 78,8%6 different characters 9 the entire Unicode 4.6. It naturally includes the full set of IPA characters and diacritics. If you want to mi: #hinese, Arabic, *indi and ;ietnamese characters with phonetic symbols, all without chan)in) fonts, this is the one to )o for. (ut because this font is so vast, there is a ris, that it will slow your computer down when you use it. If you<d still li,e to have it, you can download it free from 'icrosoft at http133office.microsoft.com3downloads346663aruniupd.asp: . So the best Unicode phonetic font seems to be Lucida Sans Unicode. It has everythin) the ordinary practisin) phonetician needs in the way of symbols, yet remains conveniently compact. =ou may find it u)ly when displayed or printed in lar)er si>es1 if so, stic, to si>e 86, as I do.

What about the phonetic font I already use?


(efore Unicode "multibyte$ fonts became available, many of us used special customi>ed sin)le?byte phonetic fonts. =ou may be familiar with proprietary fonts such as the Ipa?sam fonts available from University #olle)e London, or the free SIL @ncore fonts from the Summer Institute of Lin)uistics. -hey will still wor, in current versions of Windows and Word, but you can<t e:ploit Auto#orrect with them in the way Auir,e and *olser discuss, and I shanBt mention them further. -hey will probably )radually disappear over the ne:t few years, as more and more Unicode fonts become available.

AutoCorrect codes for phonetic symbols


=ou can create Auto#orrect codes for IPA symbols in e:actly the same way as Auir,e and *olser describe for accented letters of the ordinary alphabet. A)ain, it<s up to you to decide what codes you choose to use. Personally, for the startin) and endin) character of my phonetic symbol codes I use C, the vertical line. /n a U ,eyboard, it<s conveniently located on the same ,ey as the bac,slash, but reDuires you to press the shift ,ey. -his is handy, because I li,e to use SA'PA for my Auto#orrect codes, and most of the SA'PA symbols are uppercase. "If you<re not familiar with SA'PA, it<s an AS#IIi>ation of IPA widely used by speech technolo)ists. Eead about it at http133www.phon.ucl.ac.u,3home3sampa3home.htm .$ So I su))est the followin) pattern for phonetic codes1 "8$ Startin) character 9 C "4$ SA'PA code 9 such as A "for $ or F "for G$ "5$ @ndin) character 9 C -hus the code for is CAC, and the code for G is CFC. Hollow the instructions )iven in Auir,e and *olser<s article to create an Auto#orrect code for each phonetic symbol you want to use. *ere<s a table of the basic SA'PA set. Vowels Code CAC CIC Letter J Description script a, open bac, unrounded, #ardinal 7, @n). start ae li)ature, raised open front unrounded, @n). trap

C&C CAC C@C CFC C5C CIC C/C C4C CMC COC CUC CPC C;C C=C

G L N

turned a, open?mid schwa, Kerman besser turned script a, open bac, rounded, @n). lot epsilon, cardinal 5, open?mid front unrounded, Hr. mme turned e, schwa, @n). banana reversed epsilon, open?mid central, @n). nurse small cap i, la: close front unrounded, @n). kit turned c, cardinal &, open?mid bac, rounded, @n). thought slashed o, cardinal 86, close?mid front rounded, Hr. deux oe li)ature, cardinal 88, open?mid front rounded, Hr. neuf small cap oe li)ature, cardinal 84, open front rounded upsilon, la: close bac, rounded, @n). foot barred u, cardinal 8%, close central rounded, Swedish sju turned v, cardinal 8Q, open?mid bac, unrounded, @n). strut small cap y, la: close front rounded, Kerman hbsch Description beta, voiced bilabial fricative, Spanish cabo c?cedilla, voiceless palatal fricative, Kerman ich eth, voiced dental fricative, @n). then )amma, voiced velar fricative, Spanish fuego left?tailed n, palatal nasal, Spanish ao turned y, palatal lateral, Italian famiglia en), velar nasal, @n). thing inverted s.c. r, voiced uvular fricative, Hrench roi esh, voiceless postalveolar "palatoalveolar$ fricative, @n). ship theta, voiceless dental fricative, @n). thin turned h, labial?palatal appro:imant, Hrench huit e>h "yo)h$, voiced postalveolar "palatoal.$ fricative, @n). measure dotless Y, )lottal stop, Kerman Ver_ein

Consonants Code Letter C(C R C#C S C+C T CKC CJC CLC CUC V CEC CSC C-C W C*C CXC CYC

Length, stress and tone marks Code C1C CZC C[C Diacritics Code C\C C]C Symbol , e.). n ^, e.). ^ Description combinin) vertical line below, syllabicity mar,, @n). garden combinin) tilde, nasali>ed, Hrench bon Symbol Description trian)ular colon, len)th mar, vertical stro,e, primary stress mar, low vertical stro,e, secondary stress mar,

Uote that you have to type a diacritic after the base symbol it )oes with. So for ^you type CACC ]C. In the symbol bo:, by the way, the syllabicity mar, is located directly above the Kree, capital pi "_$, but two lines hi)her. -he combinin) tilde is directly above the Kree, upper?case >eta "`$, but three lines up. As you may notice, the Lucida Sans Unicode diacritics are not always easy to read on?screen. -hey donBt all print out very well, either. -hese may be all the symbols you need. -hey are sufficient for you to ma,e phonemic transcriptions of @n)lish EP, Hrench, Kerman, Spanish and Italian. If you need more symbols, create an Auto#orrect code for them in the same way. -here may not be a SA'PA code for them, but with the help of the 0?SA'PA proposals "www.phon.ucl.ac.u,3home3sampa3:?sampa.htm$ you can code all the remainin) IPA symbols unambi)uously. "(ut remember that you can instead use any other code you find convenient.$ *ere is a selection of 0?SA'PA codes1

Code C8C fig!"# CtaC CnaC CEbC CQC ChbC C C C7C C'bC CcdC Cc6C fig!$%# CcdC

Symbol e!g! p$ e!g! n$ e!g!$n$

Description barred i, cardinal 85, close central unrounded lon)?tailed t, voiceless retrofle: plosive lon)?tailed n, retrofle: nasal small cap r, uvular trill turned s.c. !, alveolar tap hoo,ed h, voiced )lottal fricative belted l, voiceless alveolar lateral fricative dar, l, velari>ed alveolar lateral velar appro:imant modifier apostrophe, e!ective combinin) rin) below, voiceless3devoiced combinin) brid)e below, dental

-he e!ective diacritic is located immediately below "small cap b$. -he voicelessness diacritic is located in the same column as the Kree, upper?case mu "e$, but two lines hi)her up. -he dental diacritic is in the same column as the Kree, upper?case rho "f$, but two lines up.

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