Editing Slash (punctuation) (section)

===Linguistic transcription===
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A pair of slashes (as "[[#slants|slants]]") are used in the [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcription]] of [[speech]] to enclose [[pronunciation]]s (i.e., [[phonetic transcription]]s). For example, the [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] transcription of the English pronunciation of "solidus" is written {{IPA|/ˈsɒlɪdəs/}}.<ref name="oedsolid" /> Properly, slashes mark [[phonemic transcription|broad or phonemic transcriptions]], whereas narrow, [[allophone|allophonic]] transcriptions are enclosed by [[square bracket]]s. For example, the word ''little'' may be broadly rendered as {{IPA|/ˈlɪtəl/}} but a careful transcription of the [[dark L|velarization of the second L]] would be written {{IPA|[ˈlɪɾɫ̩]}}.

In [[sociolinguistics]], a double or triple slash may also be used in the transcription of a [[Sociolinguistics#Sociolinguistic interview|traditional sociolinguistic interview]] or in other type of linguistic elicitation to represent simultaneous speech, interruptions, and certain types of [[speech disfluencies]].

Single and double slashes are often used as typographic substitutes for the [[click letter]]s [[ǀ]], [[ǁ]].

A [[diaphoneme|diaphonemic]] transcription may be marked in several ways, e.g. with a pair of slash marks ({{IPA //|◌}}).