Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each transcription decision by whether it belongs to a BROAD or a NARROW transcription.
Groups: Broad · Narrow
- Using square brackets
- The style used in a dictionary
- Recording only the contrastive units
- Using slant brackets
- Marking aspiration on a stressed-onset /p/
- Marking a vowel as nasalised before a nasal
Hints
- One kind records what the speaker intended, the other what came out.
- Anything predictable from a rule belongs to the narrow transcription.
Show the answer
Broad: Recording only the contrastive units, Using slant brackets, The style used in a dictionary
Narrow: Marking aspiration on a stressed-onset /p/, Marking a vowel as nasalised before a nasal, Using square brackets
Why
The dictionary item is the practical test: dictionaries use broad transcription because everything in the narrow column is predictable from the allophonic rules, so printing it would add length without adding information a reader could not derive.
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