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Phonetic

Transcription and
Analysis
J.C. Wells

Keidy Fleshey & Karolly Hernández


Phonetic
Transcriptions

Use of symbols
International Phonetics
Alphabet

Hundreds of alphabetic
symbols
Impressionistic and
Systematic

Language independent
Language under description
Simple and
Comparative

Practical purposes
Comparing among sounds
The use of symbols
Allophone: one of two or more
variants of the same phoneme.
E.g.
The aspirated \p\ - pin
Unaspirated \p\ - spin
Phonemicization
Archiphoneme
In weak-vowelled syllables English has
neutralization of the phonemic contrast
and the symbols
Diagraph
Dictionary entries
Several competing citation forms.
Cover more than one form of
language.
May be predictable (rule-governed)
variability.
Pedagogical Transcription,
Dictation & Reading Exercises

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