is used in the scientific-theoretical investigation o f the phonetic
systems and teaching foreign language pronunciation. Transcrip
tion is a special phonetic alphabet by means of which the sound
system or a system o f phonemes o f a particular language is repre
sented. Usually two principal types o f transcription are distin
guished:
phonetic
and
phonological.
Phonetic transcription represents a system o f sounds and
changes their pronunciation undergo. The symbols of a phonetic
transcription are enclosed in square brackets [ ]. Phonological
transcription denotes the system of segmental phonemes of a lan
guage. Its symbols are denoted between two slanting bars / /.
1
H.Kurath.
A phonology and prosody o f modern English. Ann. Arbor, 1964. pp. 30-31.
2
Joshua Whatmough.
Language. A M odem Synthesis. 1956, p. 126.
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