Consider the transcription of the following text about the school and some of its roles in society. If you want to check out the real text, read it from your course handbook.
First of all, it may be important to consider that a whole lot of words in English have alternative pronunciations, especially if these alternatives involve weakening (= the use of weak forms of pronunciation in unstressed syllables). Consequently, we may say (and, therefore, transcribe) words in different ways. For instance, we may say environment in one of, at least, three ways, namely, /ɪnˈvaɪərən mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪrn̩mənt/, or /ɪnˈvaɪrəmmənt /, the last one including assimilation of /n/ to /m/. In the text transcribed above, I have shown some of these possibilities. You'll find that a number of alternatives appear in italicized symbols. As I've just said, this means that there are more options than the one given.
What other examples have you found in this transcription? I'd like to hear you all on this!
