CUVOALD
A Computer-usable Version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English

Author

Dowloadable from Oxford Text Archive (item U*-710-E in the Dicts folder of the FTP site).
Date: 22 June 1992

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Information extracted and edited by Jean-Louis Duchet
COLEX project, and FORELL-AIT, Université de Poitiers, February 1998.

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Contents

This electronic version of the 3rd edition of the dictionary contains pronunciation information for British English.
70646 entries.

Phonetic symbols and their IPA equivalents

I	[]	i	[]	U	[]	u	[]
E	[]	eI	[]	0	[]	O	[]
&	[]	@	[]	V	[]	A	[]
		@U	[]	oI	[]	3	[]
N	[]	R	[r] (linking r)	S	[]	Z	[]
T	[]	D	[]	s	[s]	z	[z]

Other symbols:

-

hyphen (as in spelling)

'

primary stress

,

secondary stress

Note:

• No use is made of the colon as length-mark in this dictionary.
• Final [i] is considered as a lax sound, and is therefore transcribed as I.
• Monosyllabic words have no stress-mark.
• The fourth column indicates the number of syllables.

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Sample file

The dictionary file for the letter L (272 Kb) may be downloaded.

It is in text only format.

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Jean-Louis Duchet, Laboratoire FORELL,
Équipe d'analyse informatique des textes,
Université de Poitiers.

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