Well, the IPA is the international phonetic alphabet.

IPA 是国际音标。

Eleanor Lawson uses ultrasound to study English phonetics.

埃莉诺·劳森用超声波习英语语音。

English is not a strictly phonetic language.

英语并不是一个音形完全一致的语言。

One of the most significant is phonetics.

最不一样的是语音。

I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语音和音韵——还有语音。

This is something I have read in many books about phonetics, linguistics.

是我在很多关于语音、语言的书读到的。

So you need a phonetic script? You need something?

所以你需要注音字母？你要借助东西？

I recommend that you learn the IPA, the international phonetic alphabet.

我推荐你习国际音标。

Is there something about the phonetics of the words themselves that create that association?

是不是单词本身的语音造成了种联想？

But English is not a phonetic language, thank God.

但英语不是一种语音语言。

And it's so crazy, it has many, many, many English words and their phonetic transcript.

它真的很棒，里面有很多很多的英语单词和它们的语音记录。

So, they give the phonetic spelling, they give the syllables, they give you other forms.

所以，些网络词典会告诉你读法拼写，音节和单词另外的形式。

I forgot to mention, here, the phonetics.

我忘了说了，发音。

At this point writing became phonetic, and then all kinds of new communication became possible.

样，文字变成了表音符号，所有的全新交流方式都变成可能。

But English is not a phonetic language.

但是英语不是一种语音语言。

The English letters are the same as the phonetic spelling.

英语字母跟语音拼写一样。

And this changed some vowels and some words and imitated earlier phonetic changes.

改变了一些元音和一些单词，模仿了早期的语音变化。

If you're familiar with phonetic symbols, you'll notice that there is no R here.

如果你熟悉音标，你会注意到里没有 R。

Take a look at the phonetic transcriptions of these two words, let's go on to 16 and 60.

看一下两个词的音标，我们继续讨论 16 和 60。

That's the IPA. And that's not a type of beer. No, it's the international phonetic alphabet.

那是国际音标。不是啤酒的一种。不是的，是国际音标。