To everyone potentially interested:*
=== Call-For-Interest: animIPA ===*
Around the turn of the last century phoneticians around the world agreed
that it in order to avoid the confusion caused by multiple ways to
*transcribe speech* it would be beneficial to create a *universal
phonetic alphabe*t, and *IPA *(the International Phonetic Alphabet) was
thus born.
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/full-ipa-chart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Starting in the 1970s, and taking off during the 1980s, speech
pathologists (et simile) realised that humans with *pathological speech
disorders*, and children with *developing but not mature speech*,
produce several speech sounds that were/are not included in IPA proper,
and for that reason the *extIPA*, "extended IPA", was created.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensions_to_the_International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Both charts are attached.
When I started doing reading up and doing research on *animal
vocalizations* -- beginning with cheetah purring, as covered in my 2008
paper on ingressive phonation (reference below; several examples
therein) -- I noticed how inconsistent the usage of terms for animal
vocalizations was, with terms being borrowed across species with little
clarifications and with sometimes confusing "appropriation" for sounds
very dissilimar.
Being familiar with both IPA (having taught phonetics proper for some 30
years) and pathological/developmental phonetics since 2012 (active
within the Speech–
Pathology Programme at Linköping University, Sweden), and given the
"exploding" interest in animals vocalizations the past decade or so, it
struck me that it would be beneficial to researchers working on animal
communication if there were at hand *an "IPA" for animal vocalizations*:
an *animIPA*.
After discussing this for a few years, most notably with*Roger Moore*
and *Angela Dassow* (thanks for comments and input) we have agreed that
the best way to go about this is to post a (this) *Call For Interest* on
the VIHAR listserv and see if there is an interest in such an
undertaking and as a first start have an online workshop on this,
discussing what will be required and with input from as many different
fields as possible. (Note that extIPA took many years of work; thanks to
*Mar**tin Ball* for feedback here).
Note that while many symbols already in existence in IPA and extIPA --
like the symbols for pulmonic egressive and pulmonic ingressive
airstreams, characteristic of purring, neighing etc -- could easily be
part of the animIPA, beyond doubt a variety of new symbols surely will
have to be invented. (And ultimately they will have to be given
unicodes, etc; but that's a later problem.)
So, if you think that this might (potentially) be a good idea, *please
let us know that you would be interested in contributing* to this,
*preferably not later than the first week of January* -- taking the
holidays in consideration and giving you some time to think about this.
And if (!) you are interested in a more "fleshed out" version of this
email – with more "details" and things to consider – I've got one ready
for you. (I was advised not to use that one for a "Call For Interest"; I
tend to be overly verbose.)
*Hap**py* *Holidays*!
Robert Eklund
*Reference*
Eklund, Robert. 2008.
*Pulmonic ingressive phonation: Diachronic and synchronic
characteristics, distribution and function in animal and human sound
production and in human speech*.
/Journal of the International Phonetic Association/, vol. 38, no. 3,
pp. 235–324.
*Robert Eklund*, PhD, MA, BA
Associate Professor (Biträdande Professor) in Language, Culture and
Phonetics
Associate Professor (Docent/Reader/Habilitation) in Computational
Linguistics
Speech Technology – Linguistics – Phonetics – Neurocognition –
Mammal Vocalization – Wildlife Conservation –
Music – Musicology
http://roberteklund.info
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