Re: Phonological Relay Proposal

Nik wrote:
>
> Marcus Smith wrote:
> > Does that mean everyone will have to include stress/pitch/tone in their
> > transcriptions?
>
> I would think so anyways.  After all, some languages have various
> neutralizations that depend on stress, like reducing vowels to schwa, or
> other phonetic restrictions based on stress.  E.g., in W, a cluster like
> ['i.a] would become [i], while [i.a] or [i'a] would become [ja].
>
My opinion is that we should all include stress at the least. If you
include pitch & tone, i.e. their essential to your language, explain how
it's transcribed, in both your orthography and in the ASCII-fication of
the IPA you use.

I'll make guidelines in the message I send to all in the relay.

--
Robert