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

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...

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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