Re: Looking for IPA symbol

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:17:36PM -0500, Adam
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious wrote:
>    One of my conlangs has a phoneme which sounds somewhere in between /s/ and
>    /T/.  Does anyone know the IPA symbol for it?
There's no separate symbol for any point of articulation in between
alveolar ([s]) and dental ([T]). I guess you can use the diacritic
for "advanced" (plus sign under the symbol, _+ in CXS) or "retracted"
(minus sign under the symbol, _- in CXS).  Using those, your phoneme
could be written either [s_+] or [T_-].

If both /s/ and /T/ are also phonemes, then you have a mighty fine
distinction; if not, then I would just pick one of those symbols
for use at the phoneme level and only worry about the _+/_- stuff in
phonetic transcription.

-Marcos