35.2376, Software: The American English Transcription Trainer

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2376. Tue Sep 03 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2376, Software: The American English Transcription Trainer

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Date: 31-Aug-2024
From: Roslyn Burns [roslyn.burns at yale.edu]
Subject: The American English Transcription Trainer


DiversiPHy Shared Phonetics Teaching Resources is delighted to present
a free new online pedagogical tool called The American English
Transcription Trainer:
http://linguisticking.com/TranscriptionTrainer/TranscriptionTrainer.ht
ml

This online tool is designed to provide both students and instructors
a free online resource for both learning and teaching introductory
American English IPA transcription. This tool features audio of 300
commonly used nouns and verbs in American English based (based on COCA
frequency data) spoken by 10 native-speaker linguists of North
American English representing a variety of different regional and
social backgrounds.

The tool comes with a built-in answer-checking function which is
tailored to each speaker’s pronunciation and a built-in keyboard. The
IPA symbols that are represented in the tool were selected based on a
survey of instructors of introductory American English IPA
transcription.

The transcription properties accepted by the built-in answer-checking
function are customizable. In this respect, when teaching a
phonetics/phonology unit which focuses on the transcription of
nasalization, this feature can be turned on with an option button. If
a course does not focus on the properties of stress, or focuses on
primary stress but not secondary stress, these features can be turned
off.

This tool contains information about the region that each speaker is
from and the Read Me document on the tool’s page contains information
about which regional and dialectal features are exhibited in the
database. The Read Me also contains information about transcription
conventions, how to activate features for answer-checking,
troubleshooting answer-checking, and the full word list.

If you would like to schedule a virtual demo for an academic working
group and learn more about the variation represented in the tool,
please contact Roslyn (scheduling can happen as time allows).

If you see that your region isn’t represented and would like to see it
represented, you may contact Roslyn about the possibility contributing
(as time allows).

Please note: (a) the tool may take 15 seconds to load, (b) the tool is
not intended to be used on a phone or small screen device, and (c) the
main features of this tool are in a point and click interface.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): West Germanic



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