Re: Webpage

Very impressive and very much fun!  And mostly just the kind of consonant
systems I like (wicked)!


At 22:59 2002-08-06 -0700, Marcus Smith wrote:
>This issue doesn't arise much in front-central-back distinctions, except
>with the low vowels. There's a strong tendancy to see back-/A/ rather than
>central-/a/, partially (but not mainly) due to the arbitrary borderline
>between central and back.
>
>I'm not sure how to fix this problem without some complicated scheme of
>assigning vowel labels depending not only on the frequency of the vowel,
>but also on what other vowel symbols have been assigned, which starts
>getting more complicated than the algorithm for figuring out the values in
>the first place. *Sigh*
Maybe tweaking the borderline between /e/ and /I/ in favor of /e/?

And similarly WRT /A/ vs. /a/ of course -- not that this later tendency is
quite as irritating as the other one.




/BP 8^)>
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