ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that for the speech pathologist both approaches are often necessary, but we will be attempting to show that refinements in both areas are required if the needs of speech pathology are to be met, and to examine some developments led by speech pathology. Impressionistic transcription and instrumental transcription are, then, the two branches of phonetic description, cutting across subdivisions of phonetics in terms of subject-matter. The criticism on diacritic usage is made of course from the theoretical standpoint. In actual usage a diacritic that can be applied to many symbols is obviously easier to remember than a set of new symbols. Xeroradiography is an X-radiographic method utilising a special electrically charged plate, which avoids the need for using a photographic chemical plate. The role of phonetics is no longer a static one: the simple teaching of normal articulation and transcription.
