This guide explains the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), noting how its one-to-one correspondence between speech sounds and symbols differs from standard alphabets. It provides comprehensive tables for American English consonants, vowels, and rare phonetic sounds. The resource also covers notation for primary and secondary stress in syllables to aid accurate pronunciation transcription.
This article discusses efforts to reconstruct Shakespeare's original pronunciation, focusing on experiments at the Globe Theatre and the linguistic evidence used to inform these reconstructions. It details three key types of evidence: contemporary observations, spellings, and rhymes/puns that only work in the original pronunciation.
