Re: sounds I can't find!!!

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:04:01 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> >Americanist and Czech c-hacek is [tS].
>
> That sign is also found in old Europe's linguistics, but rather in historic
> linguistics (and dialectology) as part of an alternative system to IPA. I
> think that the 'Americanist' use you're referring to is including this sign
> in a mostly IPA transcription in order to have a single sign for the
> phoneme /tS/?
I'm not deeply familiar with the Americanist system, but other particularities
include [y] and [ü] for IPA [j] and [y], which cannot be motivated by a desire
to have single signs for single phonemes.

                                          Andreas

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