On 2016-10-10, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: >> On 10 Oct 2016, at 21:42, Doug Ewell <d...@ewellic.org> wrote: >> Hans Åberg wrote: >>> I think that IPA might be designed for broad phonetic transcriptions >>> [1], with a requirement to distinguish phonemes within each given >>> language. ... >> IPA can be used pretty much as broadly or as narrowly as one wishes. > > Within each language, but is not designed to capture differences between > different languages or dialects.
What do you mean? The IPA in narrow transcription is intended to provide as detailed a description as a human mind can manage of sounds. It doesn't care whether you're describing differences between languages or differences within languages (a distinction that is not in any case well defined). -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
