> >On a somewhat unrelated note, I find myself wishing there were an IPA
> >diacritic for "unaspirated", for cases when I wish to emphasize that aspect
> >of a phone. Obviously, the lack of the "aspirated" diacritic should be
> >sufficient, in narrow phonetic transcription, to indicate a corresponding
> >lack of aspiration, but if the associated sound is usually aspirated it
> >would be useful to be able to show that lack explicitly... in general, a
> >"negation" operator would seem to be helpful. But then we're starting to
> >veer dangerously in the direction of feature notation...
> >
> >--
> >Mark J. Reed
>
> The extIPA uses a superscript equality sign ("=") for just that. Also, as a
> combining subscript, it is used to mark coronals as explicitely alveolar,
> which is handy too. And there's more along similar lines; I suggest you
> check it out yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtIPA
>
> John Vertical
>
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