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Phonetic Transcription

NCTU Yuwen Lai

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Articulatory descriptionvoiceless alveolar fricative voiceless bilabial plosive high front unrounded vowel voiceless postalveolar affricate

Documenting speech3

Transcription - narrow & broad transcription[spitʃ]

^O

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ghoti

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ghotilaugh women nation

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Orthographical Reform-I

• For example, in Year 1 that useless letter ‘c’ would be dropped to be replased either by ‘k’ or ‘s’, and likewise ‘x’ would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which ‘c’ would be retained would be the ‘ch’ formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform ‘w’ spelling, so that ‘which’ and ‘one’ would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish ‘y’ replasing it with ‘i’ and iear 4 might fiks the ‘g-j’ anomali wonse and for all.

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Orthographical Reform-II

• Jenerally, then, the improvement would continue iear bai iear withiear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 orso modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali be posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandantleterz ‘c’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ – bai now jast a memori in the maindz of oulddoderers- tu replais ‘ch’, ‘sh’ and ‘th’ rispektivli.

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Orthographical Reform-III

• Fainali, xen, after sam 20 iers ov orxogrefikl riform, we wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy spiking werld…

A set of symbols for representing all the possible distinctive sounds in world’s languages

Use ordinary Roman letters as much as possible

Use of diacritics for suprasegmentals, minute shades of a sound– economy of the system

One symbol -- one sound

Show pronunciation in a dictionary

Form the basis of a writing system for a language

Record a language in linguistic fieldwork

International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA)a phonetic alphabetic system used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent sounds

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Key elements for consonants: voicing, POA, MOA

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interactive IPA

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DiacriticsAccessories for sounds

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Online IPA typewriterPainless IPA typing

Native language and Transcriptiontranscriptions are always language-dependent

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Your L1 at work

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raise tongue to block the air

ta a ʃʃ

Unprejudiced transcription

tongue tip gets close to the alveo-palatal area

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raise tongue to block the air

ta a ʃʃ

Unprejudiced transcription

t ʃ

block the air partially release air

tongue tip gets close to the alveo-palatal area

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raise tongue to block the air

ta a ʃʃ

Unprejudiced transcription

How to describe a suspect

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A variety of general description information about the suspect should be noted:• Sex• Race or national origin• Age (estimated)• Weight (estimated)• Build-fat, husky, slim, muscular, etc.

Facial information is also important:• Hair-note the color, texture, hairline, style; also possible dyes or wigs• Eyes-note the color, shape (round, slanted), whether clear or bloodshot, and the

heaviness of eyelashes and eyebrows• Nose-overall shape (long, wide, flat, etc.) and nostrils (wide, narrow, flared) are

important• Ears-note size and prominence (protruding or flat against head)• Mouth-are lips thin, medium, full? do corners turn up, turn down, or level?• Chin-what is the shape (round, oval, pointed, square)? double chin, dimpled, cleft?• Neck-note protruding Adam’s apple or hanging jowls• Complexion-note pores, pockmarks, acne, razor rash, bumps• Facial hair-clean shaven? unshaven? beard, mustache, goatee, sideburns?• Tattoos-shape and style; on what part of the body

Transcription

[phone] /phoneme/ phonological representation

Physical realization

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To write down something that is spoken

distinctive featuredetailed description

Transcription

[phone] /phoneme/ phonological representation

Physical realization

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To write down something that is spoken

distinctive featuredetailed description

Transcription

[phone] /phoneme/ phonological representation

Physical realization

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To write down something that is spoken

distinctive featuredetailed description

Broad & narrow transcription19

Broad (phonemic transcription)

/ /

Narrow (phonetic transcription)

captures as many aspects of a specific pronunciation as possible

[ ]

/kæt/

[ khæt ][ khæt ]

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Phonemes (phone + -eme)

• mental representation of a sound

• distinctive phones which change meanings of words

Allophones

• pronunciation predictable, variants of a same phoneme

• Superman and Clark

Phonemes and Allophones

/ /

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• Two words with different meanings that are identical except forone sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string.

e. g. cab [kæb]and cad [kæd]

Minimal pair

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Transcription practice

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Allophonic variant - Aspiration

t

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Voice Onset Time (VOT)

t

The temporal interval between the release of the consonantal constriction and the onset of voicing

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Voicing and Aspiration

fully voiced

voiceless unaspirated

voiceless aspirated

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Aspiration (GA)

‘creaky’

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Aspiration (GA)

‘creaky’

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Aspiration (GA)

‘creaky’

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Aspiration (GA)

‘creaky’

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Devoicing (GA)

Aspiration devoice following approximants (sometimes partially)

Word-final voiced stop and fricative sometimes are devoiced as well

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CoarticulationArticulatory overlap

Anticipatory/right-to-left/backward Preservative/left-to-right/carry-over/progressive

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CoarticulationArticulatory overlap

Anticipatory/right-to-left/backward Preservative/left-to-right/carry-over/progressive

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Consonantal releaseStops

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Flap and tapStops

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Glottal plosive/stoptightly closing the vocal folds for a short time

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Syllabic consonants-

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Velarization

/l/ light - syllable initial /l/ dark - postvocalic

back of the tongue raised toward velum

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Intrusionadding sound

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Duration

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Not to mention…

• Paris

• Jesus

• Francois

• JerusalemFrench pronunciation

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Not to mention…

• Paris

• Jesus

• Francois

• Jerusalem

François (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ.swɑ]

French pronunciation

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Rhotic speech

• rhotic and non-rhotic

• linking ‘r’ link

• intrusive ‘r’ following [ɑ:] [ɔ:] [ɜ:]

“A famous example is "Park the car in Harvard Yard", pronounced [pʰaːk ðə ˈkʰaːɹ‿ɪn ˈhaːvəd ˈjaːd], or as if spelled "pahk the cah(r) in Hahvuhd Yahd". Note that the r in car would usually be pronounced in this case, because the following word begins with a vowel.”

‘America in spring’

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Rhotacizationr-coloring

• rhotic and non-rhotic

• linking ‘r’ link

• intrusive ‘r’ following [ɑ:] [ɔ:] [ɜ:]

“A famous example is "Park the car in Harvard Yard", pronounced [pʰaːk ðə ˈkʰaːɹ‿ɪn ˈhaːvəd ˈjaːd], or as if spelled "pahk the cah(r) in Hahvuhd Yahd".