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Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Saturday, August 16, 2003, 23:10
Quoting BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Isnerq Tamasaer (Thomas R. Wier wrote)*: > > > > BTW, is there an accepted way of indicating that something's > > > a morpheme, analoguous to // for phonemes and [] for phones? > > > >I know of no common way for doing this. I use || for morphemes, > ><> for graphemes, [] for phones, and // for phonemes. I know that > >many people (including some on this list) use || for graphemes and > >I know not what for morphemes. > > I've been using || for morphemes and {} for graphemes long before > the usage of || for graphemes appeared on this list. Mostly because > I already used < > for "developed into/out of", and added to the common > use of > to mark levels of quote in email it was getting confusing.
I can see how speakers of languages other than English would find this last point important. Since in English, the use of "<" and ">" to organize quotes is highly marked if not entirely absent in most publications, it simply didn't occur to me not to use them as I have.
> * I find I can't Sohlobify your surname since I don't know > whether it is /wijr/ or /waj@r/...
Ah: it's /wIr/. (I hesitate on the phonemic status of the vowel, since /I/ and /i/ are neutralized to some intermediate value before /r/ in my dialect.) Thanks for asking :) ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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