transcription
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major reference
- In phonetics: Phonetic transcription
There are many different kinds of phonetic transcription. In some circumstances a phonetic symbol can be simply an abbreviation for a phonetic description. The symbol [s] may then be regarded as exactly equivalent to the phrase “voiceless, alveolar, fricative.” When a linguist tries to…
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linguistic analysis
- In linguistics: Phonology
A phonetic transcription may be relatively broad (omitting much of the acoustic detail) or relatively narrow (putting in rather more of the detail), according to the purpose for which it is intended. A very broad transcription will be used in this article except when finer phonetic differences…
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