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Likewise when English-based pidgins and creoles are written down, the phonetic transcriptions use a similar system of modified spellings to indicate pronunciation.
I guess I'll close by quoting a comment by Lawrence W. Levine (in Black Culture and Black Consciousness ) on transcriptions of 19 th century black speech made by whites:
The transcriptions are, mercifully, what phoneticians call “broad,” which provide the basic information needed to be able to reproduce the pronunciation, as compared with “narrow,” in which detailed phonetic features are reflected that are useful for specialists but clutter up the field for ordinary users.
Independent readings and subsequent recodings of the transcriptions by two of the authors resulted in the identification of 14 salient themes among 4 broad categories of responses as described below.
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
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