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

On 27/07/24 23:19, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2024-07-26, Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> wrote:
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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.

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Related:
"Annals of intervocalic coronal reduction"
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65139
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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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