From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 10:35:02 CDT
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On
> Behalf Of David Starner
> The IPA records the exact sounds, not the underlying forms.
A minor quibble: David states a common misconception here. The IPA
notation *can* be used for "close phonetic" transcription, which
attempts to distinguish fine details in pronunciation -- i.e. record the
exact sounds. The principles applied by the Internation Phonetic
Association, however, are phonemic: the primary intent of the IP Assoc'n
for the IP Alphabet was to have a notation for representing the phonemes
of any given language using a notation that was language-independent in
order to facilitate language teaching. (See the Handbook of the IPA,
1999, for further details.)
Peter Constable
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