canIPA Natural Phonetics – Downloadable PDF files

• The PDFs available on this page should not be intended as an exhaustive anthology but as a careful selection of what is most useful and updated to approach Natural Phonetics and Tonetics. Alongside monographic PDFs and single chapters from such “vintage” works as A Handbook of Pronunciation, this page provides quite extensive excerpts from newer handbooks such as our Lincom series about the pronunciation and accents of individual languages.

• Here is a list (updated 2023-07-01) of the books published so far and those under preparation, detailing the Natural Phonetics and Tonetics method and its ^canIPA phonetic alphabet, as well as the in-depth analysis of several languages. Some older publications included in the list are still valid in terms of theoretical and technical accuracy but have been superseded by more recent and extended works.

• The dots on our tonograms should appear as filled dots (not as empty ones, with only a very thin edge, as reported by some readers). Thus, for a better result, we warmly suggest to read our PDF’s using professional programs, not only when those files contain tonograms.

• Natural Phonetics & Tonetics (NPT)

• English Pronunciation & Accents (EPA)
• Some Diachronic Stages of English (Including Early Modern English)
• “Multicultural” London Pronunciation – March 2018
• Additional mediatic American English variants — 2022-02
• The Alaskan accent of English — 2022-02
• Further local mediatic accents of English — 2022-02
• Mediatic Northern-English accent — 2022-02
• Celtic mediatic accents of English — 2022-02

• Italian Pronunciation & Accents (Ipa)
• Manuale di pronuncia italiana [M^aPI – A Handbook of Italian Pronunciation — (in Italian)]
• La buona pronuncia italiana del terzo millennio (The Good Pronunciation of Italian in the Third Millennium [in Italian])
• Dizionario di pronuncia italiana [DⁱPI – A Dictionary of Italian Pronunciation — (in Italian)] Online version available!
• Italian intonation: neutral & regional accents
• Pronunce straniere dell’italiano [ProSIt – Foreign Pronunciations of Italian — (in Italian)]
• La vera pronuncia neutra moderna dell’italiano in frasi effettive [The True Modern Neutral Italian Pronunciation in Actual Sentences — (in Italian)]
• Parole e nomi stranieri in contesti italiani monolingui [Foreign Words and Names in Italian Monolingual Contexts — (in Italian)]

• Other Languages
• Other PDFs

• Publisher’s page
• Natural Phonetics & Tonetics – Chs. 0-6 (FIRST) — 2023-06-20
• Natural Phonetics & Tonetics – Chs. 7-14 (MAIN) — 2023-07-20

Additional contents from an older edition:

• NPT – Dead Languages (Part 1)
• NPT – Dead Languages (Part 2)
• NPT – Cebuano, Tetum, Coptic, and Kashmiri

• Publisher’s page
• An extended excerpt from English Pronunciation & Accents

Extra contents:

• EPA Ch 10 – The diphthongs of the three neutral accents — 2023-09-20
• EPA Ch 36* – Length for emphasis — 2023-05-10
• EPA Ch 284 – Different vowel timbres used by monolingual native speakers
• Some integrations, additions, and modifications — 2023-12-06

[An Introduction to Phonetics]

• Full text of Avviamento alla fonetica — 2023-10-30

• An extended excerpt from Italian Pronunciation & Accents

[A Handbook of Italian Pronunciation]

• MaPI 2004 — 2023-11-07
• Aggiunte e modifiche (additions and corrections to the 2004 amended and modified reprint)
• Mini-antologia fono-tonetica [Mini phonotonetic anthology]

[Good Italian Pronunciation for the Third Millennium]

• Full text (4ed) — 2023-03-26

[Italian Pronouncing Dictionary]

Former edition:

• Publisher’s page
• An introduction to the DiPI with a few suggestions on how to use it (in Italian)
• Body text of the dictionary for those who want to print it out
• dipionline.it, a searchable online version of the DiPI’s A-Z list
• A note about the use of the DiPI and DíPIn (in Italian) — 2024-04-05

New edition:

• Il DíPIn – Dizionario di pronuncia italiana neutra [DíPIn – A Dictionary of standard (neutral) Italian Pronunciation — (in Italian)], an extended and updated edition of the DiPI, without the A-Z alphabetical lists, which are still in preparation — 2024-04-02

[Foreign Pronunciations of Italian]

Here is the complete text of ProSIt.
It is advisable to print 2 pages per horizontal sheet, which is why the font has been set to such a large size.

• Arabic Pronunciation & Accents - Ch. 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 — 2020
• Arabic Pronunciation & Accents - Regional Accents — 2020 Publisher’s page
• Armenian — 2024-03-24
• Berber (Nafusi) — 2020-08
• Catalan Pronunciation & Accents — 2023-12-30
• Chinese Pronunciation & Accents — 2017 Publisher’s page
  • Chinese P&A integrations — 2024-02-11
• Chuvash Pronunciation
• Danish Pronunciation — 2020-08
• Dutch & Afrikaans Pronunciation & Accents — 2016 Publisher’s page
• Esperanto Pronunciation

• Finnish Pronunciation — 2019-03
• French Pronunciation & Accents — 2017 Publisher’s page
• French — “Multicultural” Paris Pronunciation — 2018-03
• Colloquial French Pronunciation — 2023-01-01
• Galician Pronunciation & Accents — 2022-02
• German Pronunciation & Accents — 2016 Publisher’s page
  • German — “Multicultural” Berlin Pronunciation — 2022-02
  • German — A note on reviews and reviewers — 2022-02
• Ancient Greek Pronunciation & Modern Accents — 2022-02 Publisher’s page
• Greek Pronunciation & Accents — 2020-03
• Hebrew Pronunciation & Accents — 2019-03
• Hindi Pronunciation & Accents — 2017 Publisher’s page
• Old Irish Pronunciation — 2023-07-06
• Japanese Pronunciation & Accents — 2017 Publisher’s page
• Korean Pronunciation — 2024-01-19

• Latin Pronunciation & Ancient & Modern Accents – 2022-11 Publisher’s page
  • Latin P&A integrations — 2023-12-28
• Norwegian Pronunciation — 2024-03-17
• Persian Pronunciation & Accents — 2020-03
• Old Persian — 2023-06-09
• Portuguese Pronunciation & Accents — 2017
• Romanian Pronunciation & Accents — 2022-02
• Russian Pronunciation & Accents (An extended excerpt) – 2023-11-19
  • Russian Pronunciation & Accents par. 13.12 to 13.15 — 2023-07-16
• Sanskrit Pronunciation — 2022-02
• Sorbian phonopsis — 2024-03-30
• Spanish Pronunciation & Accents [extract] — 2022-02-02
  • Spanish P&A integrations, additions, and modifications — 2023-07-05
  • Spanish P&A integrations for foreign accents — 2023-12-06
  • Spanish — Mediatic Castilian
  • Spanish — Bad and good ways to show the vowels of Spanish
• Swedish Pronunciation
• Thai Pronunciation — 2021
• Turkish Pronunciation & Accents — 2016 Publisher’s page
• Vietnamese Pronunciation — 2020-07
• Welsh Pronunciation — 2023-06-23

• A Note of Thanks [in Italian, English, and French]
• Is the publishing for books on teaching languages serious enough? — 2023-07-16
• The difference between ‘cardinal’ and ‘natural’ vowels (or vocoids) — 2023-06-23
• More about natural vowels — 2023-07-02
• Vowels – canIPA & offIPA — 2024-02-20
• The Basics of Natural Tonetics — 2023-06-23
• On fait de la phonétique avec les oreilles, pas avec les yeux! Le cas des voyelles nasales du français. [Phonetics Should Be Done With Our Ears, Not Our Eyes – The Case of French Nasalized Vowels — (in French)] — 2007-06
• Trasparenza e opacità fonica: per una comparazione fra lingue romanze [Phonic Transparency and Opacity: For a Comparison Between Romance Languages] An intervention by Luciano Canepari at the day of study on Orality and Mutual Understandability Between Romance Languages – Researches and Teaching Implications – Venice University, December 7^th, 2006)
• Writing systems: the utmost monstrosity of alphabets and ‘orthographies’ — 2014-11
• A few remarks on the Italian DOP – Dizionario di ortografia e pronunzia [A Dictionary of Orthography and Pronunciation] — 2019-09
• Emphasis and Syllable Lengthening 2023-05-10
• A note on 4 mediatic accents (3 of German and 1 of French) — 2022-02
• Asian languages and /ɯ/ — 2024-03-31
• Languages and the interrogative protune /¿/ — 2024-02-08
• A note about the Handbook and Journal of the IPA — 2024-04-14
• Pronunciare lingue antiche (latino, greco, sanscrito) e costruite (esperanto) [Pronuncing Ancient Languages (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit) and Constructed Languages (Esperanto) — (in Italian)] — 2023-06-10