The Center for Confident American English Communication

I receive lots of requests from students for IPA charts and information about the pronunciation of American English vowel and consonant sounds. Here is some basic information. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system that was developed to represent the sounds of spoken languages. The system uses characters from the Latin and Greek alphabets.

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This week I’ve had several students ask me to explain the International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA. Although I am not an expert on this subject I do use IPA symbols with my students including the symbols for: the schwa vowel sound /ə/ the voiced th sound /ð/ the voiceless th sound /θ the tapped t

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