Paul Warren is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. Language Matters is a fortnightly column about language. OPINION: In an earlier column, I wrote about the game Wordle ...

I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Linguistics. I find the phonetics course particularly interesting, especially when studying the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). By communicating ...

The military phonetic alphabet consists of the standard English alphabet, plus a few extra words that are specific to military use. Some of these words include "Alpha," "Bravo," and "Charlie." ...

Speeding the availability of language resources for endangered languages. Tools such as this have the power to shift how we think about endangered languages. Rather than perceiving them as being ...

Command-line interface and Python library to transcribe pinyin to IPA. The tones are attached to the vowel of the syllable. linguistics tts speech-synthesis pinyin speech-recognition cyrillic chinese ...

Take the international phonetic alphabet (IPA), for instance. It's not the same thing at all, although you've likely seen it plenty of times, such as in the dictionary or an encyclopedia.

Isolated icon vintage old telegraph in flat style on a white background with red, dark blue, and blue Creative vector illustration of international telegraph morse code alphabet isolated on ...

"Like the International Phonetic Alphabet for human languages, this 'Sperm Whale Phonetic Alphabet' shows how a small set of axes of variation give rise to the diverse set of observed phonemes (in ...

Sperm whales use complex vocalisations resembling Morse code, revealing a sophisticated communication system with a “phonetic alphabet” Published - May 08, 2024 03:23 pm IST Reuters READ LATER ...

Having analysed more than 8,700 snippets of sperm whale clicks, known as codas, the researchers claim to have found four basic components making up a “phonetic alphabet”.