Re: ASCII IPA

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

>
> It's hard to say exactly.  Some people strongly prefer it.  I pretty
> much started using Kirsch exclusively, and now I use
> X-SAMPA-Conlang-Variant
> which uses & for ae-ligature and the Kirsch conventions for stress, as
> lots of
> other people do also.  (How do you know if ' is primary stress or
> ejective?  You just guess, I guess.)
>
In X-SAMPA ' has never marked ejectiveness. The sign for ejectives is _>. ' is
for palatalisation! But X-SAMPA allows to use _j instead of ' for
palatalisation (what I do personally), so using the Kirschenbaum conventions
for stress is actually never ambiguous.

Christophe.

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