In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader ...

Whether you're effected by Hurricane Sandy or not, bad reception is never something you want to mess around with. Reddit user psychuil points to the official phonetic alphabet as a great means to ...

If you've ever listened in on air traffic control tower chatter or seen pretty much any movie about the military, you've heard people using the NATO phonetic alphabet. It's a method that substitutes a ...