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CSD 211
International Phonetic Alphabet

Accurately preserve
speech
Why transcribe?
Document
Compare to normal
Compare pre- and post- measurements
Communicate
With other professionals

- One sound often represented by different spellings

~consider a in may, able, cake, chain, steak, gauge, ballet, matinee

- Same letter can represent different sounds

~consider o in toe, today, women, clock, glove

- Not true in one-to-one correspondence

~ph, th

- Sometimes we spell with letters to represent no sound at all

~thought, knee, whistle, pneumonia

- Sometimes the sound is not represented by a letter

~t is missing in pizza

Transcription

Broad (phonemic transcription)

~ /*/, virgules
~General
~Phonemes

Narrow (phonetic transcription)

~ [*], brackets

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~Specific
~Phonemes with allophones

How will I use transcription professionally?

Elicit articulation performance

-Articulaiton test
-Spontaneous

Listen to clients production

Judge the production as right or wrong

If wrong, transcribe what you heard

all this in a time efficient manner!

- 16 Consonants Symbols = Grapheme

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SYMBOLS WILL BE IN VIRGULES

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