MOBYPRON Dictionary
Mobypron
Author
Grady Ward
Copyright (c) 1988-93, Grady Ward All Rights Reserved.
3449 Martha Ct.
Arcata, CA 95521-4884 USA
(707) 826-7715 voice/fax
Date: 22 June 93
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Information extracted and edited by Jean-Louis Duchet
COLEX project, Université de Nantes and FORELL-AIT,
Université de Poitiers, February 1998.
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Contents
The MOBYPRON directory contains a pronunciation dictionary of American English, as evidenced by the final r's and the /oU/ diphthong.
Phonetic symbols and their IPA equivalents
The symbol @ is used both for [
] and [
], which are treated phonemically
as two stress-conditioned distributional variants.
| I | [ ] |
U | [ ] |
E | [ ] |
O | [ ] |
A | [ ] |
@ | [] |
& | [ ] |
N | [ ] |
S | [ ] |
Other symbols:
| - | elidable [] |
' | primary stress |
, | secondary stress |
COMPLETE LIST OF SYMBOLS
Each pronunciation vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field
followed by a field delimiter of space and the IPA-equivalent field
that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is significant).
Spaces between words in the word or phrase or pronunciation field is
denoted with underbar "_".
/&/ sounds like the "a" in "dab"
/(@)/ sounds like the "a" in "air"
/A/ sounds like the "a" in "far"
/eI/ sounds like the "a" in "day"
/@/ sounds like the "a" in "ado"
or the glide "e" in "system" (dipthong schwa)
/-/ sounds like the "ir" glide in "tire"
or the "dl" glide in "handle"
or the "den" glide in "sodden" (dipthong little schwa)
/b/ sounds like the "b" in "nab"
/tS/ sounds like the "ch" in "ouch"
/d/ sounds like the "d" in "pod"
/E/ sounds like the "e" in "red"
/i/ sounds like the "e" in "see"
/f/ sounds like the "f" in "elf"
/g/ sounds like the "g" in "fig"
/h/ sounds like the "h" in "had"
/hw/ sounds like the "w" in "white"
/I/ sounds like the "i" in "hid"
/aI/ sounds like the "i" in "ice"
/dZ/ sounds like the "g" in "vegetably"
/k/ sounds like the "c" in "act"
/l/ sounds like the "l" in "ail"
/m/ sounds like the "m" in "aim"
/N/ sounds like the "ng" in "bang"
/n/ sounds like the "n" in "and"
/Oi/ sounds like the "oi" in "oil"
/A/ sounds like the "o" in "bob"
/AU/ sounds like the "ow" in "how"
/O/ sounds like the "o" in "dog"
/oU/ sounds like the "o" in "boat"
/u/ sounds like the "oo" in "too"
/U/ sounds like the "oo" in "book"
/p/ sounds like the "p" in "imp"
/r/ sounds like the "r" in "ire"
/S/ sounds like the "sh" in "she"
/s/ sounds like the "s" in "sip"
/T/ sounds like the "th" in "bath"
/D/ sounds like the "th" in "the"
/t/ sounds like the "t" in "tap"
/@/ sounds like the "u" in "cup"
/@r/ sounds like the "u" in "burn"
/v/ sounds like the "v" in "average"
/w/ sounds like the "w" in "win"
/j/ sounds like the "y" in "you"
/Z/ sounds like the "s" in "vision"
/z/ sounds like the "z" in "zoo"
Stress or emphasis is marked in the data with the primary or secondary marks: "'" (uncurled apostrophe) marks primary stress, "," (comma) marks secondary stress.
SPECIAL FEATURE OF THIS LEXICON
Several hundred words pronounced differently because of their part-speech have been distinguished. For example,the entries:
close/v kl/oU/z and close/aj kl/oU/s
(terminal sibilant varies)
or
effect/n '/I/,f/E/kt and effect/v ,/I/'f/E/kt
(stress varies)
distinguish those two parts of speech. Any word with this information will terminate with the virgule (slash) in the vocabulary field, followed by one or more of the following part-of-speech abbreviations:
n, v, av, aj, interj,
followed by the rest of the pronunciation record.
Sample view of the passage containing the entries for effect :
Sample file
The dictionary file for the end of letter Z (zodiac-zoo) (128Kb) may be downloaded.
The dictionary file for the letter L (200Kb) may be downloaded.
Both are in text only format.