What phonetic symbols are kk and IPA?

KK phonetic symbols and DJ phonetic symbols are all designed according to the principles of international phonetic symbols.

Differences between DJ phonetic symbols and KK phonetic symbols and examples

British pronunciation is based on the English pronunciation dictionary. They represent the pronunciation called "pre-nucleation" (RP), which is common among educated British people, especially in the south of England.

American pronunciation represents one (and sometimes two) pronunciations commonly used by Americans, and is usually marked by KK phonetic symbols, that is, the phonetic symbols developed by American linguists John S kenyon and Thomas Alcott.

For example, British English reads the letter [C] and American English reads the letter [a:]. What British English reading [wCt], American English reading [wa:t].

As early as 1888, linguists of the International Phonetic Alphabet Association developed a set of international phonetic symbols called IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), hoping to use a symbol to represent a sound, so as to avoid the inconvenience caused by everyone using their own symbols.

The most common phonetic symbols in China English dictionaries are the International Phonetic Alphabet (DJ) with British pronunciation and the KK Phonetic Alphabet with American pronunciation. The former is based on the English Pronunciation Dictionary compiled by daniel jones (1963), and the latter is based on the American English Pronunciation Dictionary compiled by John S. kenyon and Thomas A. Knodt (1956). It is worth mentioning that all the symbols used in KK phonetic symbols come from IPA, Kenyon &; Knodt only cuts off symbols suitable for American English.

Understand English pronunciation

English is one of the most widely used languages, and its pronunciation has many dialects and accents. Have a basic understanding of it before learning.

As the most widely used language in the world, English is not only the mother tongue of the British, but also the "first language" of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. But just as there are many dialects in Chinese, English in different countries and even different places is not exactly the same. We can't learn all the pronunciation differences at once, so we mainly learn a common and widely accepted and understood English pronunciation.

"Standard pronunciation" and BBC English. As far as Britain is concerned, there are different accents in different places, such as London accent and Yorkshire dialect. One pronunciation has been popular in Britain and other English-speaking countries for a long time. This pronunciation is called "Received Pronounciation" (RP for short). "Standard pronunciation" is mainly used by educated people in southeast England, especially private middle schools, Oxford, Cambridge and other famous schools.

With the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) using RP pronunciation and making it more and more popular, BBC English has become more and more influential in various countries and has been widely used in English teaching. Represents the characteristics of British pronunciation. Therefore, our research is based on this.

General American English. "American English" and "British English" are the accents that we often contact and learn the most in textbooks. There are many similarities and obvious differences between them in pronunciation and intonation. For example, American English has a lot of rolling tongue sounds /r/. This book will introduce the main differences between them in the later part. American English also has regional differences, and the popular one is "General American English".

International phonetic alphabet. Although English is a phonetic symbol, due to the historical evolution and the inhalation of foreign words, the words themselves cannot fully reflect the pronunciation. For example, a in bad, make, what and other words will have different pronunciations. This requires a set of phonetic symbols to mark the word, so that people can know how to pronounce the word at a glance. Phonetic symbols are born on demand, which are a set of phonetic symbols used to mark the pronunciation of words.

There are many forms of phonetic symbols in English, such as Oxford phonetic symbols in Britain, Webster phonetic symbols in the United States, KK phonetic symbols and so on. But from a global perspective, the International Phonetic Alphabet is the most widely used.

The International Phonetic Alphabet is designed by the International Phonetic Association. The association was founded in London on 1886, and the phonetic transcription system was published on 1888. After several revisions, it has become more and more perfect and has become a widely used phonetic symbol tool in the world, which is now the international phonetic symbol.

KK phonetic symbol is popular in American English learning now. It has many similarities with international phonetic symbols and is relatively easy to learn.