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   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-07-26, Helmut Richter  wrote:   
      
   > I am very skeptical about "fully precise" transcriptions. In every   
   > language I know, the range of pronunciations that native speakers produce   
   > and that other native speakers perceive as distinct and free from dialect   
   > is much broader than a fully precise transcription would specify.   
      
   Related:   
   "Annals of intervocalic coronal reduction"   
   https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65139   
      
   Mark Liberman has recently been hammering home the point that English   
   words in fluent speech are frequently not pronounced as you would   
   think they are.   
      
   --   
   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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