Re: signal and noise in phonologies and scripts

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/).
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>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!).

                                                Andreas

PS In case anyone feels the need to state the obvious, I DO realize that
ugliness ratings are subjective.

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