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Show USE OF PHONETIC SPELLING I Reasons Advanced Why It Would B Well If Its Study Should Do Made More General.- Phonetics In Its broadest sense Is a study of the whole range of sounds, articulate, musical and otherwise. Its Its restricted keuse It is coutlncil to articulate sounds of human speech. Kven In this restricted tense It Is still brood enough to Include the subject of the acoustic or mechnnlcnl sldo and the anthropological or philological side-. It mny dlscius simply tho speech vibrations that cnuso any par-tlculnr par-tlculnr sensations on the human ears, or It mny Include nn Investigation of tho manner and causes of the changes tht nrtlculnte sounds of n laiiRiiagn undergo ns It develops. The study of phonetics Is widely advocated by philologists nnd by many of thu most thoughtful teachers for three reasons: (1) Thnt persons mny speak their mother tnngun correctly through tbiM learning to know the proper valuation of Its sounds; ('.!) thnt they mny learn successfully the pronunciation of oth-er oth-er languages, to which A knowledge of their own Is the beit Introduction; (3) thnt those who wish to study philology mny have a key to that , science. And the sounds of our Inn-gunge Inn-gunge cannot be successfully studied. or explained without somo use of phiw nolle spelling. Hundreds of pli.netl: nlphuhcts have been proposed, but thq only ono thnt has made progress and, bids fnlr to bernnio general (naturally; wllh somo modltlcatlons) Is thnt rfi thu Association Internationale Phonic tlipie. This alphabet took form be-tweeu be-tweeu 1880 and 1880 In proposals madq by Paul , ICdouiird Pussy, a noted -sV French phonetician. |