Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

> Date:         Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:44:57 +0000
> From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
>
> Do you mean "alveolar fricative"? If so, I don't know. Alveolar stops are
> [t] or [d] - their default PoA is alveolar according to my IPA chart. In
> close transcription they should get a diacritic when representing dentals.
[t] and [d] are in the middle of a box covering the dental, alveolar
and postalveolar POAs. But let's assume that their range is actually
restricted to alveolar when the context is a close transcription. How
about postalveolar? [t_-]?

However, [D] and even /D/ are specifically dental on the IPA chart,
contrasting with the alveolar sibilant fricative /z/. That's OK for
loose or phonemic transcription, since I can't imagine a language with
a dental/alveolar contrast in plain fricatives. But I want an alveolar
diacritic for close work.

(A wild thought: perhaps the reason that /D/ is alveolar in Danish is
that there's no /z/ --- otherwise /D/ might tend to be dental to keep
the two better apart).

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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