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Phonetic transcription - Definition and Overview |
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A phonetic transcription is a linguistic representation of an utterance using phonetic symbols, like the International Phonetic Alphabet.
There are two general types of phonetic transcription: broad transcription and narrow transcription. Broad transcription is usually just a transcriptions of the phonemes of an utterance, whereas narrow transcription encodes information about the phonetic variations of the specific allophones in the utterance.
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