British Dialects Book

[Dennis R. Preston]

>I don't understand what a phonemic (since it is a mental
>representation) pronunciation is. Nobody ever pronounced a phoneme.
>
>dInIs




>Chiming in late, due to posting problems: since IPA constitutes
>"dictionary-style definitions" for pretty much the whole planet other than
>the US, can we distinguish between "phonemic" (US-style) and "phonetic"
>prons rather than assuming we're normative and the rest of the linguistic
>world is abnormal?
>
>Winking, but not n jest,
>
>Wendalyn Nichols
>
>At 05:41 AM 9/15/02 -0400, Frank Abate wrote:
>In reply to what Sali says below, what makes linguists abnormal is that they
>use IPA without complaint, AND want others to do the same.
>
>Partly in jest,
>
>Frank Abate
>
>****************************
>
>At 05:45 PM 9/14/2002 -0500, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>
>>The second edition of Trudgill's book includes IPA as well as the
>>dictionary-type respellings making it useful to linguists as well as
>>normal people.
>      I did not know linguistics made its practitioners abnormal! I once
>heard this kind of distinction from the manager of an apartment building
>where I stayed at the LSA Institute at UIUC (1999). He said that linguists
>were only on my floor and a second one. All the other floors were occupied
>by "normal people." I stared at him wondering what made linguists abnormal.
>
>Sali.

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