Re: Blah blah blah natlangs

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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