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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 168. Not illustrated. Chapters: Speech Organ, Phone, Arpabet, Voiced Alveolo-Palatal Fricative, Unreleased Stop, Vocal Apparatus, Syllabic Consonant, Nasal Release, Uvular Flap, Speech Shadowing, Retroflex Lateral Flap, Harsh Voice, Whispering, Emphatic Consonant, Faucalized Voice, Phonetic Palindrome, Phonological Awareness, Palatal Lateral Flap, Bilabial Flap, Rhinoglottophilia, Duplex Perception, Cluster Reduction, Orthoepy, Egressive, Apical Consonant, Alveolar Ridge, Tenuis Consonant, Nasalance, Diction, Voiced Labiodental Plosive, Denasal, Auditory Phonetics, Near-Back Vowel, Assibilation, Upstep, Nonexplosive Stop, Bidental Consonant, Downdrift, Mean Length of Utterance, Ingressive Speech, Strident Vowel, Deletion, Echo Vowel, Extra-Short, Epiglottal Trill, Ballistic Syllable, Prestopped Nasal Consonant, Dahl's Law, Tautosyllabic, Lateral Release, Natural Class, Velar Lateral Flap, Hypocorrection, Pre-Voicing, Ucla Phonological Segment Inventory Database, Im la, Near-Front Vowel, Clipping, Dentolabial Consonant, Pitch Reset, Epiglottal Flap, Lallation, Lambdacism, Continuant, Uvular-Epiglottal Consonant, Enunciation, Mouille, Initial Consonant Voicing, Pulmonic Sounds, Dental Stop, Alveolar Obstruent. Excerpt: Arpabet is a phonetic transcription code developed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) as a part of their Speech Understanding Project (1971-1976). It represents each phoneme of General American English with a distinct sequence of ASCII characters. Arpabet has been used in several speech synthesizers, like SAM for the Commodore 64, Say for the Amiga and TextAssist for the PC. It is also used in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. In Arpabet, every phoneme is represented by one or two capital letters. Digits are used as stress indicators and are placed at the end of the stressed syllabic vowel. Punctuation marks a...