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What is the Value of Broad Transcription?

February 16, 2016 Philip Thompsonconventions, linguistics, phonetics, questions, standard language ideology, The Empty Chart, transcription

This blog post is an open inquiry: what is the value of teaching broad transcription to actors these days? Every fall, I teach phonetics to my first-year acting students at Rutgers. Every fall, we go through the empty consonant chart, […]

Adding Insult to Investigation

October 15, 2013 Erik Singerconsonant muscularity, exercises, fun, Omnish, Outlandish, The Empty Chart

One thing I think we’d like to do with this blog is share ideas for new and fun Omnish exercises. One of us will write a post soon sharing one or two that aren’t in the book. I have also […]