Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary Cd Rom Download

Apart from the transcriptions, the CD-ROM version offers a few additional features. Some of them,e.g. sound recordings, are typical of a software dictionary.Others are quite novel, e.g. the Sound Search and pronunciation exercises. All the featuresare described below.

The 16th edition of the EPD CD-ROM was a bit disappointing because it only had British recordings. This edition has both British and American recordings.However, you can listen only to the first (most common) British and American pronunciation.For example, even if the dictionary lists more than one British transcription (e.g. for pure:/pj/ and /pj:/),you can only listen to the first pronunciation.

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As I wrote in my review of the book version, the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary is usefulin those situations where you have reasons to doubt your regular dictionary (or dictionaries). If the EPD lists a pronunciation first,it is probably the most common one. If the EPD does not list a pronunciation, it is probably quite rare.

The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917.[1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent. The dictionary is now in its 18th edition. John C. Wells has written of it "EPD has set the standard against which other dictionaries must inevitably be judged".[2]

The precursor to the English Pronouncing Dictionary was A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language by Hermann Michaelis and Daniel Jones,[3][4] published in Germany in 1913. In this work, the headwords of the dictionary were listed in phonemic transcription, followed by their spelling form, so the user needed to be aware of the phonemic composition of a word, in order to discover its spelling. A typical entry, given as an example in the preface, was ekspl'nein 'explanation'. The user therefore had to have recognized the phoneme sequence /ekspl'nein/, before they could discover the spelling form of the word. This format did not find favour and a German-British work was in any case not likely to do well at the time of the First World War.[5]

At the time of the publication of the 16th edition, a CD-ROM disk (compatible with Windows but not with Apple computers) was produced which contains the full contents of the dictionary together with a recording of each headword, in British and American pronunciation. The recorded pronunciations can be played by clicking on a loudspeaker icon. A "sound search" facility is included to enable users to search for a particular phoneme or sequence of phonemes. Most of the recordings were made by actors or editorial staff. The recordings were completely revised for the 18th edition.

The global screen layout conforms to another lexicographic standard: the word search box with the dynamically expanding word/result list on the left, the much larger main dictionary window on the right, and the pull-down menus across the top toolbar (see Figure 1). All fonts are clearly legible at the standard resolution of 1024768 pixels and in all three font sizes selectable from the CEPD options menu (small, medium, and large).

The CEPD is obviously an excellent didactic resource in the field of EFL/ESL. However, there are some problems with the design and functionality of the CD-ROM, which are in part unavoidable teething pains for this new baby of Cambridge University Press and TEXTware A/S, yet some of which reflect more systematic flaws of current electronic lexicography. After all, CEPD is not the first electronic dictionary to feature phonetic transcription, audio recordings or listen-record-compare exercises. In my review of Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (Sobkowiak, 2003), for example, I analysed some common weaknesses such as: audio-transcription mismatches, IPA screen rendition problems, limited and/or confusing representation of phonostylistic variation (due to different accents and tempos of speech), Sound Search and Pronunciation Practice functionality problems, and unused potentials. While not the first electronic dictionary, CEPD is the first electronic pronunciation dictionary on CD-ROM, so naturally any phonetic weaknesses in its design and implementation are immediately thrown into especially sharp focus. These will be reviewed in the next section.

Designing the user interface for an electronic dictionary is no small task. All of linguistic, lexicographic, psychological and computational issues come into play to form a knot of conflicting demands and preferences. The challenge of making an electronic pronouncing dictionary is of course even greater; not only because of the multimedia (which is by now taken for granted by dictionary users), but because in the absence of all the semantic information, so prominent in an ordinary dictionary, the phonetic issues come to the foreground, with all the complexities outlined here. In this context, CEPD on CD-ROM is to be seen as a remarkable achievement of phono-lexicography. Most of the flaws detailed in this review can be easily remedied before the next edition appears, and those which might not will certainly continue to provide food for thought and research to metalexicographers and phoneticians. In the meantime learners and teachers of English pronunciation will be using this resource to great benefit.

The CEPD functionalities which will doubtless turn out to be most useful in the context of EFL/ESL teaching and learning are: (a) fast orthographic access to impeccably pronounced model renditions of a large number of English words, (b) Pronunciation Practice for both in-class ad-hoc remedial treatment and self-access long-term drilling (for highly motivated learners), (c) Sound Search through the contents of the dictionary via the Phonetic Keyboard. The pedagogically most disappointing feature of CEPD is the exercise suite: a rather unimaginative bunch of multiple choice tasks which are bound to become thoroughly boring after a few attempts.

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Jones had collaborated on a dictionary project prior to the EPD but, rather than listing headwords orthographically in alphabetical order, that version had listed the headwords in phonemic script first, with the spelling form following. It was not a best-seller. 17dc91bb1f