Re: SAMPA to Unicode tool

Hi,
Thank you, I'll be glad to get your feedback.


> Just one remark, which has little to do with the subject but it's better to
> correct mistakes as soon as you see them. The stress marks of IPA
> (transcribed in X-SAMPA as " and %) must appear *in front* of the stressed
> syllable, *not* in front of the vowel of a syllable! That's because stress
> is a prosodic feature, not a feature of a specific phonetic segment. So
> "sabyukà" should be written in X-SAMPA [s6"bjuk@] (or [s6b"juk@] if the
> syllable break is between the [b] and the [j]).
Yes, I remember that we already discussed that point a while ago. I know
that IPA recommands that we stress the whole syllable and not the
nucleus. But I also know that some linguists don't follow IPA
recommandations. Neither do I ;). I think it doesn't make sense to
stress a "syllable". When you use metrical grids, only nuclei bear an
'x' at the "accent" level, not the whole "syllable". Anyway, wherever
you put the accent, the script will tranlate it properly :D.

Regards,

Julien.

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