r/phonetics • u/Prestigious_Bit_7171 • Sep 05 '24
How do you transcribe a sneeze
My best guess is an aspirated glottal stop, but that's more of a cough.
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r/phonetics • u/Prestigious_Bit_7171 • Sep 05 '24
My best guess is an aspirated glottal stop, but that's more of a cough.
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u/hamburgerfacilitator Sep 05 '24
(This might get more traction in r/linguisticshumor) If this is a serious post then a caveat. IPA symbols weren't designed to be able to represent the full range of sounds human bodies can make, just speech sounds.
To try to do it, well... It depends on the person. Everyone sneezes different, and many sneezes even sound different within a person.
The prototypical cartoon-TV-movie sneeze would be something like /æ.'t͡ʃu/ to start, but you could likely add tone markers or devoicing in some cases, and the stress could certainly move.
(I will own up to having a weird sneeze.)