Re: ASCII IPA

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Another scheme, probably only known on this list, is CPA (a search in the
> archive should turn it up). Personally I like it rather better than either
> (X-)SAMPA or Kirshenbaum, but it hasn't gained much following. My favourite
I haven't heard of it, and will try to remember to look it up.

> thing about it is that it uses ^j and ^h to represent palatalization and
> aspiration respectively, which's very easy to remember for anyone who's any
> familiar with the IPA and ASCII-fied math. I sometimes use these particular
> notations even when otherwise sticking to X-SAMPA.
One of my (various) *least* favourite things about x-sampa is "_" for
diacritic, which is absurd because an underscore suggests seperation
rather than association (e.g. [{_rU] looks like a *seperation* between
[{] and [rU] rather than an *association* between [{] and [r]). I
think my preference for a diacritic indicator would be "\", but that's
a preference derived from C programming.

Besides which, if I was inventing a scheme I would begin with "+" for
raised, "-" for lowered, "<" for more fronted and ">" for more back.

Adrian.