TRANSLATION OF IPA INTO BRAILLE(<Feature Articles>Interfaces between Phonetics and Other Areas of Linguistic Research)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose braille symbols for the International Phonetic Alphabet (=IPA) for linguistic researchers like myself who have visual handicaps. To the best of my knowledge, not all symbols of the IPA have been translated into braille, even in America. For example, the reversed symbols and small capitals have not been put into braille. I propose new braille symbols for them and attempt to translate the consonants and vowels of IPA into braille completely.