«broad» and «narrow» forms of transcrip tion are usually often used in description o f RP. But in GA there
are too m any transcription forms suggested by various linguists.
There are differencies in word accentuation between RP and GA
too. Usually British linguists distinguish three degrees (primary,
secondary and w eak) degrees of word stress, w hile American au
thors distinguish four (primary, secondary, tertiary and weak) or
even five (including the fourthiary) degrees o f word stress. These
degrees also have different notations in books. One w hich H. A.
G leason indicated is /
a
"
v
/ symbols in GA. From these / Л / sym
bols are used to indicate primary and secondary degrees o f stress
in RP. The secondary stress is more com m only used in GA than
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