Phonemes
The following table lists phoneme symbols used.
The symbols are an adaptation of the DISC
phonetic character set used
in the CELEX Lexical Database.
This phonetic character set represents each distinct phoneme
by a single symbol taken from the ASCII character set.
| Symbol | Example | Symbol | Example |
| 1 | bay | 2 | buy |
| 3 | burn | 4 | boy
|
| 5 | no | 6 | brow
|
| 7 | peer | 8 | pair
|
| 9 | poor | D | then
|
| E | pet | I | pit
|
| J | cheap | N | bang
|
| Q | pot | S | sheep
|
| T | thin | U | put
|
| V | putt | Z | measure
|
| b | bad | d | dad
|
| f | fat | g | game
|
| h | had | i | bean
|
| j | yank | k | cad
|
| l | lad | m | mad
|
| n | nat | p | pat
|
| r | rat | s | sap
|
| t | tack | u | boon
|
| v | vat | w | why
|
| z | zap
| # | barn |
| { | pat
| _ | jeep
|