Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

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.

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