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Hi all, I mostly post on the ZBB (or lurk, more recently). For the past few years I've been working on a program for keeping track of conlang dictionaries and phonologies (and eventually morphologies and grammars). I posted it over there originally, but I had to take a long break from updating it an...

Well, I have never heard of / / being for the broader phonetic transcriptions, but I have never taken a class specifically on phonetics , either, so for all I know it is standard in that field. OTOH, most conlangers use / / for phonemes rather than phones, so using an alternate terminology here migh...

/ / are used for broad (less specific) transcriptions. [ ] are used for narrow (more specific) transcriptions.* Actually, / / is for phonemes and [ ] is for phones/sounds. Since you seem to just be talking about the latter right now, you should be using [ ]. How broadly or narrowly you transcribe p...