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Re: CB Notation [was: glottals]

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, January 26, 2004, 20:54
Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>:

> Andreas asked;
> > Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>: > > > > > Barbara Babbled; > <snip> > > > replace post volic [t] with [?] so "hot" becomes /h;@?/ and "butter" > becomes > > > /b;v?3:/ > > > > Andreas asked; > > What's the semicolon meaning here? > > Barbara Burbbles, > > it's an instuction that means "visualise upside down".
Semicolon for _upside down_? That would take some getting used to!
> I use the > Coutts-Barrett system (natch, as one of its co-devisors)
Fair enough. It's always helpful, tho, to point out when one's using something other than CXS/X-SAMPA, the de facto standard herearounds.
> and in that system > the syntax is; > <visulisation inscuction>PHONEME<articulation instuction> > so /;v/ is v upside down, the IPA letter for the "weak u" vowel. > When the older ASCII/IPA systems were devised the @ symbol was made on a > 16x8 pixel grid and looked rather like a backwards "e", so it made sense to > use it (as the closest match) for the shwa, however modern screen reolutions > mean in most fonts it is a round "a" (or alpha) surounded by an open > circle/spiral and the round "a" (or alpha) is the IPA for the low back > rounded, or "broad a" sound so it made sense to us to use the @ for it as it > looks much more like an alpha nowadays than a shwa (our "closest match" shwa > by the way is /6/ although /;e/ is acceptable in the CB notation) the /;@/ > is therefore the back rounded weak broad "o" which in IPA is the alpha > upside down.
Must be using a non-modern screen resolution (1024x768), since on my system '@' looks nothing like an alpha. Not much like a schwa either, tho. Andreas
> My copy of the full system is, alas, on a dead hard drive, and Robert Coutts > has buggered off to parts unknown for the time being, but it'll see the > light of day eventually. I think it'll be useful for conlangers as it covers > "disordered speech" (such as a nasal hiss) and "imagined sounds" (auditory > illusions) such as voiceless trills (implosive and explosive - like a cat's > purr!) and so might cover a lot of "alien" phonemes ;-) > > I'll be putting up a website (I hope) around the end of the summer, and I'll > need to have had data-recovery done on the old hard disk by then, so a full > printable PDF of the CB system will be made available on the web (fingers > crossed) ;-) > > Barbara >

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