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Hmm. Is IPA sufficiently nuanced to represent speech as pronounced by a native speaker without the leeway that would permit a non-native accent? Put another wa
by webmaven 5y ago
Hmm. Is IPA sufficiently nuanced to represent speech as pronounced by a native speaker without the leeway that would permit a non-native accent?
Put another way, it was my impression that IPA was coarse grained enough to permit at least some different accents to be represented by the same IPA "spelling".
- tomcam 5y agoOpera singer here. IPA is indeed as coarse grained as you described in the latter sentence. Accents can definitely leak through. Practically speaking most opera singers do not use it, and are expected to take two or three romance languages in college. Accents tend to be ironed out mechanically because you want uniformity (when singing in a chorus) and good projection of the phonemes onstage.