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Translingual
Symbol
˭
- (extIPA) Tenuis; a symbol for overtly indicating lack of aspiration.
Usage notes
In speech pathology, this diacritic is used to indicate that a consonant is not aspirated when the target pronunciation is, for example in for the English word "kit," which is normally aspirated . (The aspiration of English words is not usually transcribed.)
It has also been used in linguistic field notes and dictionaries to show that a consonant has been confirmed to be unaspirated. In such cases, words transcribed as ⟨ak˭a⟩ and ⟨akʰa⟩ are known to differ, but in one transcribed ⟨aka⟩ the aspiration is unknown.
Usage dates back at least to John Wells (1982) Accents of English I, CUP.