I have goofed around with my dictionary, but I feel very unsure about this.
A Mexican lady in class said /d3ir/ in lieu of /jir/ and now I have to type that fact. Is “d3” an APA symbol? (Did i sleep that soundly in class?) Do I use a slash in front of and behind and IPA citation?
Speak slowly, I am feeling very dumb this afternoon.
You mean dz with the z that does look like a three. Presuming you mean dz as in John, that is. I don’t have it on my keyboard either, but there will be a keyboard shortcut or c&p image you can use.
Here you are: dʒ
Oh and yes, use slashes on either side.
Third reply in a short time, because I can’t edit: use i: instead of i because the vowel sound should be long. (And you should use the two tiny triangles instead of two dots in the colon).
Rats - nothing here about India pale ale.
For what you’re doing, it seems like you would want to use square brackets: [dʒir].
Slashes are standardly used when doing a phonemic rather than a phonetic transcription.
Wiki on this affricate: Voiced postalveolar affricate - Wikipedia
You should avoid using the numeral 3 in this context because it looks too much like the symbol for a particular vowel
Thank you all. It has been years since I have done this stuff.
Well, at least you weren’t beaten to the punch by eight hours.
So now it says she said [dʒir]instead of [yir].
Is [yir] in proper notation?
You are talking about the word year, yes? That’d be [ji:r]
(the [y], if you’re curious, is a vowel in IPA.)
If you pronounce the r like most Americans do, the IPA phonetic transcription would be [jiːɹ], I believe. The symbol [r] in the IPA represents a trilled r like you would find in a Scottish accent. Phonemic transcription systems are more variable. One possibility is /jir/.
Thank you all. I have discovered that Dictionary.com will show IPA notation in a format that can be cut and pasted. Wonderful.
Thank you all.
If you’re interested in actually typing any of the IPA without a hassle, check out www.sil.org and download their tools for that.
If you have MS Word you can use the insert>symbol menu to put in many IPA symbols.