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Re: RFC: New CXS symbol needed.

From:Thomas Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, November 3, 2005, 5:46
From:    Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
> 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.
Neat! I met Ken last year at CLS; he's a graduate of our department, and he just wanted to come back to meet Haj Ross et alii, IIRC. If I see him I'll have to congratulate him on his new feat. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637