Department of Cognitive Science
Phonemes
The following table lists phoneme symbols used. The symbols are an adaptation of the DISC phonetic character set used in the CELEX Lexical Database. This phonetic character set represents each distinct phoneme by a single symbol taken from the ASCII character set.
| Symbol | Example | Symbol | Example |
| 1 | bay | 2 | buy |
| 3 | burn | 4 | boy |
| 5 | no | 6 | brow |
| 7 | peer | 8 | pair |
| 9 | poor | D | then |
| E | pet | I | pit |
| J | cheap | N | bang |
| Q | pot | S | sheep |
| T | thin | U | put |
| V | putt | Z | measure |
| b | bad | d | dad |
| f | fat | g | game |
| h | had | i | bean |
| j | yank | k | cad |
| l | lad | m | mad |
| n | nat | p | pat |
| r | rat | s | sap |
| t | tack | u | boon |
| v | vat | w | why |
| z | zap | # | barn |
| { | pat | _ | jeep |