ABSTRACT
This chapter looks first at some difficulties involved with the application of the division into phonetics and phonology to disordered speech data. It considers the differences between broad and narrow transcription of clinical speech samples. The application of the binary phonetics/phonology division to disordered speech is problematic. One problem revolves around the need to discriminate between phonemic and subphonemic errors on the one hand, but also around whether the realization of the target sound is within or outside the target phonology. Phoneticians are interested in the speech production and reception mechanisms and the acoustic signal of speech and describe these features as accurately as possible without regard to the role the sounds, themselves, play in language. “Narrow” and “broad” transcriptions as terms are, however, not necessarily tied to the notions of allophone and phoneme.
