Hans Åberg 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 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. > > But the alveolar clicks requires an extension.
You've found ONE instance of non-distorted speech where IPA does not distinguish between two allophones. That is very different from saying that IPA is unsuitable for phonetic transcription. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
