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There are two types of speech sound symbols used for the Hoyloy phonetic transcription: the symbols of segmental sounds and the symbols of syllabic tone patterns. Syllabic tone patterns are described in Part One. Segmental sounds are covered in Part Two for vowels and Part Three for consonants. For illustration of the speech sound symbols described, some practical notes and examples of transcription are provided in Part Four. Finally but not least importantly in the Appendix will be discussed the system of nominal tones, a paradigm -- hidden from phonetic transcriptions -- that governs the application of sylllabic tone patterns in speech.
A phonetic transcription is normally enclosed with a pair of brackets. For two or more phrases or clauses to be contained in a transcription, marks made of two consecuted virgules are used each as a borderline between two of them. Additional symbols that may be included to mark off units of meaning syntatically in a transcription will be introduced in due course of discussion.
Author's note:
Some of the contents in this article was disclosed in 'Ifil Digest' of August 1998, but the
current version has brought a great deal of renovation to the transcription system formerly
proposed to make it work far more efficiently. Any comments and/or questions with a view to
improving upon its applicability shall be hightly appreciated.
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