Thread: ONE chart for sounds produced by MANY humans ???
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Old 26-Sep-2006, 08:58
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Default Re: ONE chart for sounds produced by MANY humans ???
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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25 View Post
Is there a limit to the number of sounds a human voice can make? With that being asked can a phonic chart of characters be made to represent every sound a person can make?
The English-only charts are more useful in the present context, but if you want the whole story
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf addresses speech sounds more generally.

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