Re: signal and noise in phonologies and scripts

Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:

> joglaran wrote:
> >The remaining combinations simply don't occur.
> >English, for example, has /b/, /p/ and /m/, but no /m_h/ (that's a
> >voiceless /m/).
> >
> > >>
> >
> >Sorry to nitpick but due to the universal quest for consistency that
> >occurs every so often, I think the voiceless marker is _0 (IPA under-
> >ring). I think that aspiration is _h.
>
> Depends on what ASCII-IPA scheme the original writer used. _0 is the
> voicelessness marker in X-SAMPA (and it's jolly ugly too), while the _h is
> the voicelessness marker in CPA (and it's only moderately ugly!).
And of course I used CPA, where voiceless is _h and aspiration is ^h.

(It goes without saying that I use CPA in all my posts, or what did
you guess?)

Jörg.