L10A: phonetic transcription provides a record of speakers’ pronunciation of their language Advantages of phonetic transcription

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TRANSCRIPTIONS OF STANDARD BRITISH ENGLISH, JAMAICAN ENGLISH AND JAMAICAN CREOLE ITEMS

L10A: PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION
Phonetic transcription provides a record of speakers’ pronunciation of their language
Advantages of phonetic transcription

It can be used as a description of one style of speaking versus another

One accent versus another

Normal versus disordered speech

Helps to highlight patterns of pronunciation which would be difficult by listening to pinpoint by listening alone

A useful tool that phoneticians use in the description of speech

It is an economical tool for capturing speech sounds on paper

They are concerned with the significant parts of the articulation rather than the role process of speech production

Phoneticians do not rely on word spelling to transcribe words

Phoneticians rely on auditory perception in most cases

TRANSCRIPTIONS OF STANDARD BRITISH ENGLISH, JAMAICAN ENGLISH AND JAMAICAN CREOLE ITEMS

SBE		SJE^¹		JC		Examples
Cons	Vowels	Cons	Vowels	Cons	Vowels	SBE	SJE	JC	GLOSS
[p]		[p]		[p]		bt	bt	bt	‘beat’
[t]		[t]		[t]	i	bt	bt	bit	‘bit’
[k	e	[k	e	[k	e	bet	bet	bet	‘bet’
[b]		[b]	a	[b]	a	bt	bt	bat	‘bat’
[d]		[d]		[d]	a	bt	bt	bat	‘bart’
[]		[]	o	[]	o	b	bon	bo	‘bog/bon’
[m]		[m]		[m]	-	b	b	bo	‘bog’
						bn	bn	bon	‘born’
[n]		[n]		[n]	u	ft	ft	fut	‘foot’
[	u	[	u	[	u	ful	ful	ful	‘fool’
f		f		f	-	!	o	ao	‘ago’
[v		[v		[v	-	bn	bn	ben	‘burn’
[]		[]	-	[s]	-	md	md	‘mod	‘mud’
[]	e	[]	e	[z]	ia	bet	bet	bat	bait’
[s]		[s]	o		ua	bt	bot	‘buat’	‘boat’
[z]	a	[z]	a		a	bat	bat	bat	‘bite’
	a		a	w	a	tan	tan	tan	‘town’
]		]		[r]	-	tl	tl	tal	‘toil’
				[j]	-	h	h	(h)a	‘hear’
w		w			-	f	f	fia	‘fare’
[r]()	a	[]	-		-	ha	ha	(h)aia	‘hired’
[j](y)		[j]
[h]		[h]		[h]		hm	hm	(h)m	‘him’
[t] (ts)		[t]		[t]		tt	tt	tt	‘chit’
[d](dz)		[d]		[d]		pl	pl	pldo	‘pleasure’

1 The phonemic inventories for vowels and consonants for Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole are adapted from Devonish and Harry (2004: 444-450)

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