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From: Peter Moylan
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:43:02 +1000
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On 27/07/24 23:19, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2024-07-26, Helmut Richter wrote:
>
>> I am very skeptical about "fully precise" transcriptions. In every
>> language I know, the range of pronunciations that native speakers produce
>> and that other native speakers perceive as distinct and free from dialect
>> is much broader than a fully precise transcription would specify.
>
> Related:
> "Annals of intervocalic coronal reduction"
> https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65139
>
> Mark Liberman has recently been hammering home the point that English
> words in fluent speech are frequently not pronounced as you would
> think they are.
Sure, but that's because pronunciation is primary, and spelling only an
approximation to the way we speak.
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Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW