Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

At 04:16 -0500 14.6.1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Joshua Shinavier wrote:
>>
>> btw. what do the pointy brackets mean?  [] are for IPA, // are for
>> orthography -- are <> the same thing?  Thanks,
>
>[] indicates *phonetic* transcription, // indicates *phonemic*
>transcription, and <> indicates orthography.  For instance, to use an
>example from English, <cab> = /k&b/ = [k_h&:b], since aspiration and
>length are predictable in English, the phonemic transcription ignores
>them.
On the net many use {} instead of <> for orthography, since it clashes wi
the use of <> to indicate hyperlinks!  Some linguists use {} to indicate
morphemes or morphophonemes, but here there is an alternative usage with
doubled slashes:
"The English plural morpheme //z// has three allomorphs /z/, /s/ and /Iz/".

I know people disagree about the underlying form of the English plural
morpheme; I just wanted to construct an example, since //// wouldn't look
very clear...

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