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 TRANSCRIPTION 

• Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols.

 • Phonetic transcriptions are usually written in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), in which each English sound has its own symbol. For example, the IPA-based phonetic transcription of the word HOME is ho ʊm, and the transcription of COME is kʌm. Note that in spelling, these words are similar. NEED FOR PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION

 • A serious criticism of English by those attempting to learn and master this language is the chaotic character of its spelling, and the frequent lack of Consider the following examples:

 1.The vowel sound [ iː ] as in the words shown below is represented by different spelling: he, see, leave, believe, receive

 2.Conversely, one symbol represents several sounds: give, gin, fat, fate, father. Or take gh: ghost, rough, right 

3.The letters ch represent three different sounds as in: chip, machine, character 

4.The same sound is represented by different letters: cough, fun, coffee; cot, kind; centre, sit; photo, fan; cook, pick, bike

  5.An extreme example we come across in the sound sh[ ʃ ] which has fourteen spellings: shoe, sugar, issue, mansion, mission, nation, suspicion, ocean, nauseous, conscious, chaperon, schist, fuchsia, pshaw (A.C. Baugh, 13)

 6.The letter l infilm is pronounced, whereas it is pronounced in palm and calm. 

7.There is a redundancy of letters in a word like queue. 

THE SYMBOLS OF THE PRINCIPAL ENGLISH SOUNDS 

However, since we are concerned here with the transcription of English words, the learners may concentrate on the following symbols which are normally used to transcribe English. The variety of English we deal with is R.P(Received Pronunciation)

 • PURE VOWELS: Key word Symbol Seat iː Sit i Set e Sat

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