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 wonder, Mr. Bone man, what you’re thinking
    of your fury now, gone sour as a sinking whale,
    crawling up the alphabet on her own bones.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)