Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:12:54 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: phonetics book?



I promised to recommend a book or two to a friend's smart teenager to

help him learn some basic phonetics. He invented his own "phonetic"

alphabet -- a familiar game to many of us, I suspect -- but made some

common mistakes and confusions, starting with interference from

English spelling (gaah). Can anyone suggest a title or two? He would

be reading on his own, with me ready to answer questions but

available mostly by email, in person only once a month or less.



Mark A. Mandel : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200

320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/

Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/