Re: RFC: New CXS symbol needed.

Tristan Mc Leay skrev:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:43 -0500, Paul Bennett wrote:
>
>>The IPA have adopted their first new symbol in twelve years.
>>
>>http://www.sil.org/sil/news/2005/labiodental_flap.htm
>>
>>I propose /v`/ for the CXS representation, mainly for graphic reasons, but
>>I think there's iconism between the tappish and flappish nature of some
>>rhotics, and the use of /`/ in a lot of those sounds.
>
>
> I propose we wait until X-Sampa has a representation for it. There's no
> reason to be gratuitously different. If X-Sampa chooses something
> like /}\/, then sure, something different is welcome, but if they just
> decide that P and v\ are no longer variants of each other, or assign V\
> to it, then I think we ought to follow their lead.
I agree.

> v` also makes me think of a retroflex. As far as I can see, ` is only
> used in retroflex sounds in CXS.
I agree about this to: ` marks "retroflex", not "vaguely rhotic-like".

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