title: Segments, letters and gestures: thoughts on doing and teaching phonetics and transcription.
abstract: This brief article reflects on some pitfalls inherent in the learning and teaching of segmental phonetic transcription. We suggest that a gestural interpretation to disordered speech data, in conjunction with segmental phonetic transcription, can add valuable insight into patterns of disordered speech, and that a gestural orientation should form part of the understanding and interpretation of the process of transcribing and the use of transcripts. We illustrate our discussion with data from a case of moderately to severely unintelligible speech produced by a boy aged 5;9.
authors: Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA. mxm2092@louisiana.edu
authors: Nicole
authors: N
authors: Müller
authors: Ioannis
authors: I
authors: Papakyritsis
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D014956:Writing