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    Linguistics 103 B.

    Hayes
    General Phonetics

    Practice in Reading Transcription

    To help you in learning transcription, here is a sample passage, written in a fairly broad
    phonemic transcription. The transcription represents my own speech, which is a fairly neutral
    variety of American English. I’ve include ligatures for diphthongs and affricates, but no length
    marks, since their use for American English is a matter of dispute. The original punctuation is
    included for clarity, though this is not part of the IPA. Capitalization is not reflected, since the
    IPA has no way of depicting capital/lower case distinction.

    A caution: many “little words” (grammatical words) have special pronunciations when used
    in a sentence. Thus for is [»fo®] by itself, but [f‘] in (say) go for broke. Also, consonants are
    often dropped from long consonant sequences in connected speech; I’ve occasionally reflected
    this in the transcription as well.

    The answer (orthographic version) to the transcription is given on the next page.

    Feedback on this new exercise (including corrections and complaints) is welcome.

    [»pnini
    f®m «wiki»pii,  »fri n«saÉkl»pii

    »pnini wz n »eÉntÉSnt »ndin g®»me®in (»p®ksmtli »ffT »sntÉS®i «bi»si) hu z

    «moÉUst »feÉms f‘ »fo®mj«leÉ »fo® »TaÉUznd »®ulz v »sænsk®t mo®»fldÉZi.

    »pniniz »g®æm‘ v »sænsk®t z »haÉli »sstm«taÉzd n ®»laÉz n »pæ‘nz »faÉUnd n 

    »lægwdÉZ. »fitÉS‘z v »lægwdÉZ ® »kæg«®aÉzd »ko® t e® «sm»le®iz, n »n

    »fo®m  »sbdÉZkt »mæ‘ v  »s v »o®‘d «mo®f»ldÉZkl »®ulz wtÉS »knst«tut 

    »blk v  »wŒk. n»h®nt n i «æn»lk »p®oÉUtÉS m»ploÉd ba »pnini r  »knspts

    v  »foÉUnim n  »mo®fim, »oÉUnli »®kg«nazd baÉ »wst‘n «lgwsts m»lni «æft‘ hi


    Linguistics 103 Practice passage: reading transcription p. 2

    »juzd m.  p»ninin »g®æm‘ z »noÉUbli ds»k®ptv; t dz »n »tmpt t »tl »pipl »haÉU

    eÉ Sd »spik n »®aÉt; »pnini wz »oÉUnli kn»sŒnd wT wt »pipl »æktÉSuli »dd «seÉ n «®aÉt.

    »pniniz »®ulz ‘ »sd t bi »pŒfkt — æ z, eÉ »pŒfkli ds»k®aÉb »sænsk®t mo®»fldÉZi,

    æn ®»grd z »soÉU »kli® t km»pju‘ «saÉ)sts hv »meÉd »jus v m t »titS

    km»pju‘z t «nd‘»stæn »sænsk®t.

    »pnini »juzz »m®ulz, «tÉS®ænsf‘»meÉSnz, n ®i»kŒZn n stÉS s«fst»keÉSn  z

    »g®æm‘ hæz  km»pju «paÉU‘ »kwvlnt tu  »tu® m«Sin. n »s «sns »pnini meÉ

    bi kn»s‘d e »f‘ v km»pju m»Sinz. p»ninin »g®æm‘z hv »lsoÉU bn d»vaÉzd

    f‘ »nn-«sænsk®t »lægwdÉZz.

    p»nini z »lsoÉU  »taÉp v »tæljn »sænwtÉS «brd »beÉkt n »sml »loÉUvz soU t i n»ta

    ® »loÉUf kn bi »juzd f‘ »itÉS »sænwtÉS.

    n i »tæljn »lægwdÉZ, p»nini z »oÉUnli  »plŒl «fo®m v p»ninoÉU,  »sml »b®d »f

    n «h®»z)li »kt n »fld wT s»lmi, »hæm, »mit, o® »‘ «fud.

    “p»nini” z »lsoÉU  »b®ænd v »g®l «meÉd sp»sfkli f‘ »g®l iz «sænwtÉSz. ]


    Linguistics 103 Practice passage: reading transcription p. 3

    Answer:

    Panini
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    Panini was an ancient Indian grammarian (approximately 5th century BC) who is most
    famous for formulating 4,000 rules of Sanskrit morphology.

    Panini's grammar of Sanskrit is highly systematized and relies on patterns found in the
    language. Features of language are categorized according to their similarities, and then form the
    subject matter of the set of ordered morphological rules which constitute the bulk of the work.
    Inherent in the analytic approach employed by Panini are the concepts of the phoneme and the
    morpheme, only recognized by Western linguists millennia after he used them. The Paninian
    grammar is notably descriptive; it does not attempt to tell people how they should speak and
    write; Panini was only concerned with what people actually did say and write.

    Panini's rules are said to be perfect - that is, they perfectly describe Sanskrit morphology,
    and regarded as so clear that computer scientists have made use of them to teach computers to
    understand Sanskrit.

    Panini uses metarules, transformations, and recursion in such sophistication that his
    grammar has the computing power equivalent to a Turing machine. In this sense Panini may be
    considered the father of computing machines. Paninian grammars have also been devised for
    non-Sanskrit languages.

    Panini is also a type of Italian sandwich bread baked in small loaves so that the entire loaf
    can be used for each sandwich.

    In the Italian language, panini is only the plural form of panino, a small bread often
    horizontally cut and filled with salame, ham, meat, or other food.

    "Panini" is also a brand of grill made specifically for grilling these sandwiches.

    Caution: the Wikipedia, an internet encyclopedia, is compiled by enthusiastic amateurs, so


    you should not necessarily believe everything this passage tells you about Panini (or panini).

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