In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

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Erin started her degree in September 2013, and she finished her classes in December 2017, graduating with a major in Linguistics, an extended minor in Psychology, and a Certificate in the Linguistics ...