Phonemic Symbols on the Computer

WRITING PHONEMIC SYMBOLS ON THE COMPUTER

On the toolbar press vložit and then symbol. Under písmo enter Lucida Sans Unicode. Next, in the box below the symbols called Kód znaku, type in the numbers on the right of each symbol for each phoneme. Then press vložit. Phonemic symbols which already exist as keyboard symbols are also listed below, as are diactitics.

Lucida Sans Unicode is a big font. Compare this paragraph with the one above. The above font is Times New Roman size 12. This paragraph is Lucida Sans Uncode 11. If you mix Lucida with other fonts, it may disturb the line height. So if you want the rest to be in Times New Roman size 12, for example, set the Lucida Sans Unicode to size 10. With Times 10, use Lucida 8.

In Word, you should disable certain AutoCorrect functions that will otherwise automatically make undesirable symbol changes, notably the "correcting" of i to I (since you may want to use the phonetic symbol i on its own).

Be careful over confusingly similar phonetic symbols.

Short vowels

I Capital I in Times New Roman (but use a smaller font size than rest of text )

e Lower case e

æ 00E6

ə 0259

ʌ 028C

ʊ 028A

ɒ 0252

Long Vowels

ː 02D0 (used for length marks)

ɑː 0251 followed by 02D0

ɔː 0254 followed by 02D0

ɜː 025C followed by 02D0

iː lower case i followed by 02D0

uː lower case u followed by 02D0

Consonants

Existing keyboard symbols

b p d t g k

v f z s h

l r w j

m n

New symbols

ð 00F0 θ 03B8

ʒ 0292 ʃ 0283

ʤ 02A4 ʧ 02A7

ŋ 014B

Additional symbols

ʰ 02B0 Aspiration

ʔ 0294 Glottal stop

ˈ 02C8 Stress Mark

ˌ 02CC Secondary Stress

For more information on the use of symbols on the computer, see the website of John Wells. (Professor of Phonetics in the University of London and former Head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London.)

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm

Below is a list of phonemic symbols which are not on the keyboard - for copying and pasting onto a text

(Adjust font size as necessary)

Short Vowels

/æ/ /ɒ/ /e/ / Ə/ /ɪ/ /ʌ/ /ʊ/

Long Vowels

/ɑː/ /ɔː/ /iː/ /ɜː/ /uː/

Diphthongs

/eɪ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/ /eƏ/ /ɪƏ/ /ʊƏ/ /Əʊ/ /aʊ/

Triphthongs

/eɪƏ/ /aɪƏ/ /ɔɪƏ/ /ƏʊƏ/ /aʊƏ/

Consonants

/ð/ /θ/ /ʒ/ /ʃ/ /ʤ/ /ʧ/ /ŋ/