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Re: Phonological equivalent of "The quick brown fox..."

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, February 5, 2007, 15:44
On 2/5/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> > > That's why e.g. aspiration is not indicated in Engl. phonemics, > > nor vowel length before voiced sounds, etc. > > Exactly!!
On a somewhat unrelated note, I find myself wishing there were an IPA diacritic for "unaspirated", for cases when I wish to emphasize that aspect of a phone. Obviously, the lack of the "aspirated" diacritic should be sufficient, in narrow phonetic transcription, to indicate a corresponding lack of aspiration, but if the associated sound is usually aspirated it would be useful to be able to show that lack explicitly... in general, a "negation" operator would seem to be helpful. But then we're starting to veer dangerously in the direction of feature notation... -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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