Recent developments in the transcription of nonnormal speech

Ball, Martin J.

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“…It has often been noted that in the developmental and clinical literature, data are frequently presented where the narrow transcription of consonant production is accompanied by broad transcription for vowels (Crystal, 1982;Ball, 1991) and Butcher (1989) suggests that a signi cant reason why vowels have not customarily been transcribed in detail in impaired speech has been that vowel transcription is diYcult. Howard and Heselwood (2002) discuss this issue, exploring some of the particular methodological challenges in the transcription and perceptual analysis of vowels.…”

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“…Vieregge and Maassen (1999) suggest that, as far as atypical developmental speech data goes, vowels are generally harder to transcribe than consonants. But students need to learn how to use phonetic symbols to make narrow transcriptions of vowels, just as much as consonants, to capture both important aspects of sociophonetic and developmental variation (Local, 1983) and also the important interactions between consonants and vowels in syllable production in developing and/or atypical speech (Ball, 1991;Bates, Watson and Scobbie, 2002).…”

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Learning and teaching phonetic transcription for clinical purposes

Howard¹,

Heselwood

2002

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This paper explores the theoretical issues surrounding clinical phonetic transcription which are pertinent to the education of speech and language therapy students. It draws on theoretical literature and practical experience, to consider issues of rationale, timing, structure, and content of courses in phonetic transcription for clinical purposes, and explores the problems and pitfalls inherent in the process. It is not a tutorial in clinical practical phonetics, but an examination of the issues which teachers of the subject need to consider in delivering such courses.

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Learning and teaching phonetic transcription for clinical purposes

Howard¹,

Heselwood

2002

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…This sub-group produced a report recommending a set of symbols and diacritics called the 'Extensions to the IPA', now commonly referred to as 'extlPA'. This set of symbols is described in some detail in Duckworth, Allen, Hardcastle and Ball (1990), and exemplified in Ball (1991) and Ball, Code, Rahilly and Hazlett (1994), and the current extlPA chart is available in ICPLA Executive Committee (1994). The extlPA symbols cover a variety of suprasegmental features, such as pausing, tempo, and loudness, as well as voice quality.…”

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The VoQS System for the Transcription of Voice Quality

Ball

Esling

Dickson

1995

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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While the history of interest in voice quality dates back at least as far as Henry Sweet (e.g. 1890), there was for many years little agreement on how to classify voice quality or how to transcribe it as part of a phonetic transcription. Indeed, there is not even agreement on precisely what the term covers in that it is often restricted to aspects of voice quality derived from vocal fold activity, rather than the fuller meaning which encompasses features derived from supralaryngeal settings of the articulators. Authors such as Nolan (1983) have used the phrase long-term quality as an alternative; however, in this article we will retain the traditional term but with a wide application to account for voice quality derived from airflow features, vocal fold activity, and supralaryngeal activity.

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“…Several authors agree that vowel transcription is more difficult than consonant transcription (Ball, 1991(Ball, , 1993Butcher, 1989;Howard & Heselwood, 2002b) but according to Donegan (2002, p. 3) it ''is an irreplaceable tool in the analysis of vowel substitutions and vowel development''. The phonetic transcription of vowel sounds is based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) cardinal vowels: a system of auditory and articulatory standard reference points whose symbols embody information about the fundamental vowel parameters of height, fronting and rounding.…”

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“…Howard and Heselwood (2002a) also stress the importance of accurate phonetic vowel transcription as a way to establish patterns of contextual, sociophonetic and developmental variation in atypical speech but state that in the clinical and developmental literature a combination of transcription approaches is very often presented with consonants transcribed phonetically and vowels transcribed phonemically. Vowel identification is more problematic than consonant identification (Cutler, Smits, & Cooper, 2005) and this, combined with the constraints on perception imposed by individual phonology (Best & Tyler, 2007), leads to greater difficulty with transcription of vowels (Ball, 1991(Ball, , 1993Butcher, 1989;Howard & Heselwood, 2002b). Howard and Heselwood (2002a, p. 383) state that it is important to ''cultivate a critical awareness'' of our own phonologies.…”

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Vowel transcription systems: An Australian perspective

Cox

2008

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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Transcription is an essential clinical tool for speech-language pathologists as it provides a permanent written record of communicative behaviour and forms an important source of data for analysis, interpretation, decision making, and dissemination. One of the responsibilities in speech-language pathology is to faithfully capture the speech production characteristics of clinical populations so that informed management decisions may be made. Notation systems that are appropriately suited for this purpose are mandatory. In Australia today, the conventional phonemic transcription system was first described over 60 years ago. However, an alternative to this traditional system has more recently been proposed by Harrington, Cox and Evans (HCE). This paper details the HCE system and argues its advantage as a clinical tool for speechlanguage pathologists in Australia. This new system provides a more accurate phonetically oriented foundation against which atypical vowel production can be assessed. It is further argued that the HCE system can form the basis for narrower phonetic examination and has pedagogical value in the description of Standard Australian English.

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Recent developments in the transcription of nonnormal speech

Cited by 14 publications

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Learning and teaching phonetic transcription for clinical purposes

Learning and teaching phonetic transcription for clinical purposes

The VoQS System for the Transcription of Voice Quality

Vowel transcription systems: An Australian perspective

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