Re: Representing tones in X-Sampa; Khmer phonemes (for Tim May)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 26, 2004, 12:54 |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> For a specific language, you're also allowed to use the traditional numbering
> of tones, and supply the number as an X-SAMPA diacritic. Eg, Chinese [ma_1]
> for the first tone. Not that this is potentially ambiguous, since [a_1] could
> also be a diphthong. That partic'lar problem goes away in CXS, but rears its
> head again in the second tone - [a_2].
Unless of course you use the approach where /a2)/ is the diphthong and
/a_2/ is /a/ on the second tone (IIUC, [a_2] wouldn't make sense because
there's no phonetic second tone).
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Tristan
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