phonetic transcription
- noun
- /fəˈnɛtɪk trænˈskrɪpʃən/
- Specialized
- Responses were initially transcribed online using phonetic transcription.
Examples
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The authors, who are both familiar with Spanish phonology and word pronunciation, prepared the Spanish-English word pairs for COSP coding by transcribing them using broad phonetic transcription.
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OK, so I want you to write a phonetic transcription of this string, you know, like, you know, they.
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The responses for the naming task were audio recorded for later transcription by researchers trained in phonetic transcription.
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Hence, performance on the VAS task showed that listeners can perceive more phonetic detail in children's speech than is typically denoted by phonetic transcriptions.
Academic text (2012) -
The teacher provided a phonetic transcription of the new vocabulary to aid pronunciation.
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The phonetic transcription of each word helps me learn their proper sounds.
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In linguistics, phonetic transcription represents the exact sounds of a language with specific symbols.
How Phonetic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'phonetic' (pertaining to speech sounds) combined with 'transcription' (a written record) yields a direct, compositional meaning: a written representation of speech sounds. This adjective–noun pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., transcripción fonética) and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Phonetic transcription is like writing a picture of how speech sounds: phonetic means 'sound' and transcription means 'writing down'. It shows each small 'sound' of a word so you can see the exact 'pronunciation'.