Add IPA diacritics to a supplied set of sounds.

Open Diacritics with an empty practice editor and turn off Smart IPA suggestions. Use ordinary keyboard entry for the literal base letters and bracket scaffolding in this task. The additional features will come from actual chart buttons. If the editor contains important work, save it first rather than treating Clear text as a harmless selection change.

Before entering anything, match each requested property to its notation: dental uses a mark below t; aspiration uses the raised modifier ʰ; syllabicity uses a small vertical mark below n; nasalization uses a tilde above a. These properties describe different dimensions. They are not four interchangeable ways to make a transcription look more technical.

Type [t, select the dental diacritic and close the bracket. After a space, type [t again, select the aspirated button ʰ and close this example. Check the tooltip description if two small marks look similar. Selecting the button inserts the character at the current caret position, so the relevant base must already be there.

The dental annotation concerns articulation, while aspiration concerns how the consonant is produced and released in relation to the following sound. Neither mark is a statement about an English spelling such as th. The task deliberately supplies the property. For real recordings, add the feature only when the observation and your transcription convention justify it.

Add a space, type [n and select syllabic before closing the bracket. Then add a space, type [a and select nasalized before closing the last bracket. For combining marks, the underlying text order is base followed by mark, even though the font displays the mark above or below that base.

Syllabic n indicates a consonant functioning as a syllable nucleus. It does not automatically mark primary stress or turn the character into a vowel letter. Nasalized a, by contrast, retains its vowel base while adding nasalization. Keeping these examples separate makes the distinction visible without inventing a word whose actual pronunciation would need independent evidence.

Use Download text after checking the four bracketed examples. Open the saved file and confirm their order, spacing and attached marks. In the verified workflow, the file contains the exact result above. The dotted circles used to display standalone combining marks on chart buttons are absent; those circles are a visibility aid, not part of the requested transcription.

If a mark looks detached after pasting elsewhere, first check for an intervening space or an incorrect caret position. Then inspect the destination font. Replacing a correct symbol with a visually similar character can hide the real problem. Keep the plain-text result as a reference while preparing formatted documents, and retain the task's descriptions so readers know what was intended.