On the other hand, many times broad, phonemic transcriptions are written using slashes even if it is not necessary.
12.
However, phonemic transcriptions may also be broad or narrow, or perhaps it would be better to say abstract versus concrete.
13.
Letters between slashes indicate phonemic transcription, letters in square brackets indicate phonetic transcription and letters in triangular brackets indicate standard Greenlandic orthography.
14.
The International Phonetic Association does not recommend the use of slashes for IPA, but permits them to be used for phonemic transcriptions.
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For further ease of typesetting, English phonemic transcriptions might use the symbol } } even though the former symbol represents the alveolar trill in phonetic transcription.
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The phonemic transcriptions of the above two words is consequently / spjn / and / pjn /, aspiration no longer being shown since it is not distinctive.
17.
An example of a language contrasting with is the Hamont dialect of Limburgish, but in phonemic transcription, the sounds are normally transcribed with and, respectively.
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A phonemic transcription ( such as a transcription of phonemes that uses the International Phonetic Alphabet, for example ) is, by its nature, homographic, also.
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To reduce the potential distortions of bilingual phonemic transcription, some dictionaries add English letters to the local-script respellings to represent sounds not specified in the local script.
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Hence, a phonemic transcription will reduce the detail of how each sound is produced to just those distinctive units, whereas a phonetic transcription can include much more fine-grained detail.
