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Phonetic Transcription and Analysis: J.C. Wells
Phonetic Transcription and Analysis: J.C. Wells
Transcription and
Analysis
J.C. Wells
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