Transcribing rhotics in normal and disordered speech.

Transcribing rhotics in normal and disordered speech.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2017 Jun 30;:1-4
Authors: Ball MJ
Abstract
The IPA's comparative lack of dedicated symbols for sonorant consonants as compared to obstruents presents some difficulties for clinical phoneticians. Among these are the ways of transcribing apical versus bunched approximant-/r/, the bilabial approximant realisation of target approximant-/r/, and fricative rhotic realisations of approximant-/r/ in normal and disordered speech. This note reports some developments in transcription that would allow clinical phoneticians to avoid the use of difficult-to-read diacritics when transcribing these sounds.
PMID: 28665740 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - June 30, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ball MJ Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: research