Phonetic Alphabet

Phonetic alphabet can mean:

  • phonetic transcription system: a system for transcribing the precise sounds of human speech into writing.
    • International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): the most widespread such system
    • Category:Phonetic alphabets: lists other phonetic transcription systems
  • phonemic orthography: for representing the sounds of a particular language with a one-symbol-per-sound correspondence
  • spelling alphabet: a set of words used instead of alphabetic letters in radio communication; each word stands for its initial letter
    • NATO phonetic alphabet: the most widespread such set (Alfa, Bravo, Charlie,...)
    • Category:Spelling alphabets: lists other spelling alphabets

Famous quotes containing the words phonetic and/or alphabet:

    “The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    “I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned “Now I lay me” and the Lord’s Prayer and your father’s and mother’s name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.”
    —Eudora Welty (b. 1909)