Re: X-SAMPA

At 01:27 PM 8/19/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:06:23PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > (sorry, I'm quite new to trying to do transcriptions without IPA or some
> > equivalent system available)
>
>We do have an equivalent system available: X-SAMPA has an ASCII equivalent
>for every IPA sequence.
>
>If you know IPA, http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif gives
>the X-SAMPA equivalences.
>
>-Mark
Thanks, Mark.

I'll go and have a look at this when I get the chance.  (Right now I have
to get ready to take myself and the children to the pool for the rest of
the afternoon.)

Actually, I just did take a look at it.  It's going to take me some time to
memorize this!  I hate doing phonetic transcriptions with anything besides
real pencil and paper, no mater what sysem is being used.  (Actually, I'm
not certain that I have ever *had* to do phonetic transcriptions on the
computer, even in college.)  I have also begun to realize that trying to do
all but the simplest of phonological rules in feature notation is going to
be really, really nasty on the computer.  Maybe I need to keep them all in
a notebook done by hand instead.  That is also problematical -- not having
all your data in one place.  What do other people do about this?

In the section on diacritics, is the underscore part of the X-SAMPA
transcription, or is it simply a place-holder for the character that needs
the diacritic?  e.g. Do you write a labialized voiceless alveoler stop as
t_w or as tw?  (I am assuming that it is the former because that is the
only way that it could be differentiated from a consonant plus glide sequence.)

BTW, what does X-SAMPA stand for?

Isidora
(who really does have to get to the pool right now!)

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