Re: Pronouncing Tokana (was RE: Importance of stress)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 27, 2000, 16:23 |
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On 27 Jan 00, at 8:57, The Gray Wizard wrote:
> Oh my, all this talk of stress has suddenly made me realize that I have been
> mispronouncing Matt's conlang all these years.
>
> Assuming a VC-avoiding syllabification, we have Tokana [to.ka.na]. With the
> Latin stress rule we get [to'ka.na]. All these years I have been calling it
> [to.kan'a].
>
I don't recall if the following is even vaguely close to what Matt
intended, but I say (I *think*), in a fairly close x-sampa:
WARNING: This is my first attempt at closer-than-normal transcription!
/t_d_hoU_^<M>"k_hA:\<ML>.n6<L>/
I recently downloaded the CSLU Speech Toolkit, and I need to start gettin'
busy with it, so I can double check things like this...
TECH: Has anyone else played with the Toolkit in any amount? Any opinions?
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Pb