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Specimen of RP

30/4/2016

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It's a tradition of the IPA that its journal publishes "specimen" phonetic descriptions of different languages and accents. In 2004 it published my account of "British English: RP". The IPA recently gave permission for me to release the article's recording of an RP speaker for public use, and I put it in the Wikipedia article on Received pronunciation. It appears along with the transcriptions I made for the JIPA publication.

I've decided to put the whole paper on this website, and you can find it here. It's not a good-quality reproduction, just a photographed copy, but it might be useful to someone.

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Eric Armstrong
30/4/2016 12:47:17 pm

I get a "you're not allowed to view this document" message when I try to access your paper. Not sure if that is Scribd acting up or what.

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Mr KEBAB
30/4/2016 01:17:27 pm

Much appreciated, Peter!

Eric, I have no problem with accessing it, and I'm not logged in.

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Peter
30/4/2016 01:52:01 pm

Hi, it does seem that there is a problem with access to this document. I don't know how Scribd come to be involved in it at all - I simply uploaded the pdf to the Weebly site and Scribe seems to have put itself in charge somehow. I'll try to add a different format. Thanks for the feedback.

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Emilio Márquez
30/4/2016 02:04:20 pm

A masterly description, worth preserving on account of both its content and its style. Thank you.

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David Marjanović
6/1/2018 01:08:33 pm

I find the allophonic transcription very interesting. The High German Consonant Shift is [kˣ]oming!

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