Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Phonological Relay Proposal

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Monday, September 11, 2000, 20:28
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