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On 27/07/24 23:19, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2024-07-26, Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> 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.

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW