Re: Phonological Relay Proposal

Robert Hailman 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.
Stress and other prosodical phenomenon would be important. In order to make
all things equal, participants should not have to pay particular attention
to word boundary. It'd be interesting to see how the prosody of one language
would be interpreted in another language. Afterall, what one language considers
one word, might sound like several words in another (or vice versa).

Great idea, BTW!

-kristian- 8)