Transcription Sept 11

Question 1

What are the 3 methods of describing speech sounds?

Answer 1

• acoustic analysis - heard
• articulatory analysis - produce
• perceptual analysis - sound (transcription primarily fall into this category.w

Question 2

What are the 2 types of transcription?

Answer 2

Broad transcription
(phonemic transcription)
- we use only the phonemes in a language inventory.

Narrow transcription
(phonetic transcription)
- we use allophones and other symbols to describe the sounds in more details
- allophonic and positional variations are included.