Re: CB Notation [was: glottals]

Barbara Barrett wrote:

>Andreas asked;
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [CONLANG] glottals
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>>Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>:
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>>>Barbara Babbled;
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>>>replace post volic [t] with [?] so "hot" becomes /h;@?/ and "butter"
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>becomes
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>>>/b;v?3:/
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>>Andreas asked;
>>What's the semicolon meaning here?
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>Barbara Burbbles,
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>it's an instuction that means "visualise upside down". I use the
>Coutts-Barrett system (natch, as one of its co-devisors) 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.
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>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 ;-)
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>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) ;-)
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>Barbara
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comparison of various ascii systems including CB here

http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html

Though there are blank spaces for the notations. Looks like it needs
updating

David Barrow

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