Extended IPA

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The Extended IPA was designed for disordered speech. However, some of the symbols (especially diacritics, below) are occasionally used for transcribing normal speech as well.

The Extended IPA for speech pathology has added additional bracket notations. Parentheses are used to indicate mouthing (silent articulation), as in (ʃːː), a silent sign to hush; parentheses are also used to indicate silent pauses, for example (...). Double parentheses indicate obscured or unintelligible sound, as in ((2 syll.)), two audible but unidentifiable syllables. Curly brackets with Italian musical terms are used to mark prosodic notation, such as .

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notation that indicates that they are comments on the prosody. Pauses are indicated with periods or numbers inside parentheses. (.) Short pause (..) Medium pause (...) Long pause (1.2) 1.2-second pause f Loud speech ('forte') [] ff Louder speech ('fortissimo') [] p Quiet speech ('piano') [] pp Quieter speech ('pianissimo') [] allegro Fast speech [] lento Slow speech [] crescendo, rallentando, and other musical terms may also be used. See Also Speech pathology Onomatopoeia References Ball, Martin J.; Esling, John H.; & Dickson, B. Craig. (1995). The VoQS system for the transcription of voice quality. Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet, 25 (2), 71-80.   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: