Re: CXS/IPA question

On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:12 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:46:13 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
> wrote:
>
>> What would be the approximant equivalent of [1] (barred-i)? I'm
>> considering
>> M\, though technically that's velar.
>>
>> The problem arises in my &%*#& Gwr sound changes: some *bdg > BDG,
> which
>> later > approximants **w,j and __? )-- these form diphthongs with
>> preceding
>> V-- Vw, Vj and V@.  In modern Gwr phonology, @ is merely an allophone
> of /1/
>>
>> I've been using h\, not quite satisfactory, though in the distinctive
>> features I'm using it's possible to contort it into @, it's just
>> not very
>> elegant.........:-(((
>
> I don't know what's kosher in IPA. Can you use the centralized
> diacritic on an
> approximant? That would be j_".
I don't know either, but I am assuming someone has come up with an ad-
hoc solution. I would probably use the non-syllabic and (I think)
raised diacritics.

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