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Brackets and transcription delimiters

There are two principal types of brackets used to set off (delimit) IPA transcriptions:

Less common conventions include:

All three of the above are provided by the IPA Handbook. The following are not, but may be seen in IPA transcription or in associated material (especially angle brackets):

Some examples of contrasting brackets in the literature:

In some English accents, the phoneme /l/, which is usually spelled as ⟨ l ⟩ or ⟨ ll ⟩, is articulated as two distinct allophones: the clear occurs before vowels and the consonant /j/, whereas the dark / occurs before consonants, except /j/, and at the end of words.

the alternations /f/ – /v/ in plural formation in one class of nouns, as in knife /naɪf/ – knives /naɪvz/, which can be represented morphophonemically as {naɪV } – {naɪV+z }. The morphophoneme {V } stands for the phoneme set {/f/, /v/ }.

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