Episode 63 (The Oxford English Dictionary)
In a Manner of Speaking
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The Difference Between Phonemic and Phonetic Transcription
The difference between phonemic and phonetic transcription is how narrow you can get in your IPA representations of what we're hearing from the speaker. I don't always find that there's a connection between the transcription provided and the and the recording. The choice of a symbol is a little bit, in a way it's arbitrary, it can be a little bit difficult to settle on for American English. Some dictionaries are sort of so latter as in, not I think you climb up, but the opposite of former.
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Before moving into lexicography, Dr. Sangster headed the BBC Pronunciation Unit and completed a D.Phil. in sociophonetics. Catherine’s linguistic research interests include accents and dialects, Germanic languages, the phonology of conlangs, language and gender/sexuality, and Latin and its Anglicization.
