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Re: Changing CXS (Was: Re: Representing tones in X-Sampa; Khmer phonemes (for Tim May))

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, January 29, 2004, 21:40
Quoting jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit: > > > You see - the current scheme is too confusing for my poor brain! (And I'm > sure > > someone told me [r`] was the approximant recently; grumble, grumble.) > > In X-SAMPA ` functions as the retroflex diacritic as well as the rhotacized > one, depending on whether it follows a consonant or a vowel.
Except that adding it to the alveolar trill [r] doesn't produce a sign for a retroflex trill, which is precisely what I'm complaining of. Andreas