Re: Finding good IPA transcriptions of English on the Web

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:34:12 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Maybe I wasn't very clear about what I'm looking for. I was hoping to
> find online examples of long selections of connected speech, as opposed
> to individual words, so that I can see how real-world speech is
> transcribed, in American English and (optionally also) in British
> English.

The only place you're going to find accurate narrow transcriptions of
English speech is in the "natural phonology" literature. Greg Lee can
tell you whether there are any corpora of extended passages, as opposed
to mere phrases and sentences.

And Hockett et al. in the late 1950s published *The First Five Minutes*,
and endless analysis of the beginning of a psychiatric session in
excruciating detail. It's the beginning of "conversational analysis,"
which, however, isn't so much interested in the phonetics of the
utterance as in everything that surrounds the actual linguistic
material. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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