Like how sounds change over time. Different sounds will evolve into other sounds, things like vowel shifts and consonant hierarchies, but it has to do with like how sounds are organized in the brain.

The Importance of Phonetics in Language Studies. Overview of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Transcription of Single Words. Transcription of Phrases and Sentences. Transcription of ...

I can remember very little about that hour, except one thing. He spoke a sentence, then told us to write it down in phonetic transcription. We all looked at each other. What was phonetic transcription ...

The students are trained to improve their pronunciation both on the segmental level (vowels and consonants) and on the prosodic level (quantity, stress, accent and tone), as well as some other ...

In our research, we employ a machine readable transcription system instead of the standard IPA symbols which cannot be easily understood by computers. The JSRU (Joint Speech Research Unit) alphabet is ...