A Revised Phonetic Alphabet proposed by the Maritimes Dialect Survey
Wilson, H.R.; Wanamaker, M.G.; Kinloch, A.M.
Journal of the International Phonetic Association 3(1): 29-35
1973
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-1003 Document Number: 320153
The origins of this Revised Phonetic Alphabet lie in the attempts of the Maritimes Dialect Survey to find an alphabet which would allow a computor to handle phonetic data readily and conveniently. This necessitated planning an alphabet which could be adapted to an 88-place 'golf ball' which could then be used with, for example, an IBM Selectric typewriter; that is to say, the proposed alphabet had to consist of not more than 88 'elements'. In fact, the Revised Phonetic Alphabet described herein consists of 85.