Re: X-X-SAMPA (Keeping the Standard)

> Date:         Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:50:39 -0800
> From: Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
>
> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > And there's # and $ --- are you sure you don't want to use them too?
>
> other than for word and syllable boundaries?
As far as I know, those characters are not part of the IPA. It may be
just as well that X-SAMPA avoids them, however, in case someone wants
to use X-SAMPA with their phonological rewriting rules.

Anyway, the common punctuation characters used in SAMPA (no X-) are ?,
:, and the quotes --- and avoiding other punctuation is explicitly
mentioned as a design goal. Since SAMPA (no X-) does need a secondary
stress mark, % is chosen, not , .

X-SAMPA, as an extension of SAMPA, has to keep % as the secondary
stress mark --- but is free to use ., !, :, and so on. So on second
thought, there was no reason not to use , for something as well ---
it just didn't happen.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)