phonology - Differences between phonemic and phonetic ...
linguistics.stackexchange.com › questions › 14780Oct 24, 2015 · Show activity on this post. As far as I know, there are three main differences between phonemic and phonetic transcriptions: Phonetic transcriptions deal with phones or sounds, which can occur across different languages and speakers of these languages all over the world. On the other hand, phonemic transcriptions deal with phonemes, which can change the meaning of the words in which they are contained if replaced; for example, /bɪt/ and /pɪt/.