Re: C-IPA underlying principles and methods
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 27, 2003, 1:33 |
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From: "Isaac A. Penzev" <isaacp@...>
| Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
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| > [s+] can *only* mean
| > the same as SAMPA [T], i.e. a true voiceless dental fricative, never
X-SAMPA
| > [s_d] (is there a difference anyway between those. C-IPA makes it
only
| because
| > IPA has an actual dental diacritic).
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| There is. [s_d] is a Russian /s/ which is NOT alveolar. Russian
speakers
| perceive English and Spanish /s/ [s] as smth closer to [S]. On the
other hand,
| sound [T] is alien for Russian.
Basque also distinguishes dental /s[/ from alveolar /s/, as Tamil does
for /n[/ and /n/.
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