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Show USE OF PHONETIC SPELLING Reasons Advanced Why It Would B Well If Its Study Should Be Made More General. Phonetics In Its broadest sense Is a' study of the whole range of sounds, articulate, musical and otherwise. In Its restricted seuse It Is confined to articulate sounds of human speech. Even In this restricted sense it Is still broad enough to include the subject of the acoustic or mechanical side and the anthropological or philological side. It may discuss simply the speech vibrations that cause any particular par-ticular sensations on tlie human ears, or it may Include an investigation of the manner and causes of the changes the articulate sounds of a language undergo as It develops. The study of phonetics Is widely advocated by philologists and by many of the most thoughtful teachers for three reasons: (1) That persons may speak their mother tongue correctly through thus learning to know the proper valuation of Its sounds; (2) that they may learn successfully the pronunciation of other oth-er languages, to which a knowledge of their own Is the best introduction ; (3) that those who wish to study philology may have a key to that science. And the sounds of our language lan-guage cannot be successfully studied, or explained without some use of phoJ netic spelling. Hundreds of phiinetid alphabets have been proposed, but the' only one that has made progress andj bids fair to become general (naturally' with some modifications) is that oft the Association Internationale Phonei tique. This alphabet took form be tween 1885 and 1880 in proposals niadei by Paul Edouard Passy, a noted! French phonetician. |