Draft:Pronouncing dictionary
A pronouncing dictionary (also pronunciation dictionary or dictionary of pronunciation) is a dictionary which provides information on the pronunciation of words through phonetic transcriptions.
Purpose
Pronouncing dictionaries provide information about the pronunciation of words,[1] although there is longstanding disagreement on if such a dictionary should strive to prescribe pronunciations or describe the pronunciations common among speakers.[2] For instance, according to 19th-century phonologist Richard Cull: "the object of a pronouncing dictionary is to record the pronunciation of the words of a language, in order to enable a reader of ordinary intelligence to pronounce them aright;"[3] whereas the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary says that: "[t]he function of a pronouncing dictionary is to record as far as possible the pronunciations prevailing in the best present usage, rather than to attempt to dictate what that usage should be."[4]
Transcription
Styles of phonetic transcription includes native language respelling and the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Native language respelling
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet...
References
- ^ Marckwardt 1953, p. 35.
- ^ Beal & Sturiale 2008, pp. 9–18.
- ^ Cull 1867, p. v.
- ^ Marckwardt 1953, p. 36.
- ^ Häcker 2012, p. 49.
- ^ Häcker 2012, p. 57.
Bibliography
- Beal, Joan C.; Sturiale, Massimo (2008). "Introduction". In Beal, Joan C.; Nocera, Carmela; Sturiale, Massimo (eds.). Perspectives on Prescriptivism. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-03911-632-4.
- Cowie, A. P., ed. (2009). The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Vol. II. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928561-7.
- Beal, Joan C. (2009). "Pronouncing Dictionaries—I Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries". The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Vol. II. pp. 149–175.
- Collins, Beverly; Mees, Inger M. (2009). "Pronouncing Dictionaries—II Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present Day". The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Vol. II. pp. 176–218.
- Cull, Richard (1867). "On Pronunciation". In Ogilvie, John (ed.). An English Dictionary, Etymological, Pronouncing, and Explanatory, for the Use of Schools. Blackie & Son.
- Marckwardt, Albert H. (1953). "The Dictionary as a Guide to Pronunciation". College Composition and Communication. 4 (2): 35–38. ISSN 0010-096X.
- Häcker, Martina (2012-05-01). "The Change from Respelling to IPA in English Dictionaries: Increase in Accuracy or Increase in Prescriptivism?". Language & History. 55 (1): 47–62. ISSN 1759-7536.