> On 10 Oct 2016, at 23:01, Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 2016-10-10, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: >>> On 10 Oct 2016, at 22:15, Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>> 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). >> >> It is designed for phonemic transcriptions, cf., >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_International_Phonetic_Alphabet > > It *was* designed, in 1870-something. Try reading the Handbook of the > IPA. It contains many samples of languages transcribed both in a broad > phonemic transcription appropriate for the language, and in a narrow > phonetic transcription which should allow a competent phonetician to > produce an understandable and reasonably accurate rendition of the > passage. Indeed, a couple of decades ago, I participated in a public > engagement event in which a few of us attempted to do exactly that.
But the alveolar clicks requires an extension.