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Re: Blah blah blah natlangs

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 0:11
Herman Miller wrote:

> [{] is the one SAMPA symbol I can't stand. My current favored email-IPA > system is exactly like X-SAMPA with the exception of [æ] for the a-e > ligature and [,] for secondary stress. (I don't use "barred u" frequently > enough to come up with a workaround for it, but I don't like [}] any better > than [{].)
I still have to think twice about stress being marked at the beginning of the syllable. In most dictionaries I've seen, stress is marked after the syllable, which makes more sense to me because the slant of an apostrophe points backwards, not forwards. Adrian.

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