Re: Miapimoquitch cat's cradle

Philip Newton:
> On 13 Apr 02, at 2:12, And Rosta wrote:
>
> > Dirk:
> > > pate lukempi  ["paD1 "luG1m%bi:]
> > > wapate lukkempi atipukan  ["waBaD1 "lukkem%bi: a"tSiBu%ka:~]
> >
> > What does % mean here? My best guess is devoicing, but that
> > seems a little surprising in the Vm%b cases.
>
> According to http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm , % is
> secondary stress (IPA: low vertical stroke) in SAMPA. And
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm confirms that it has
> the same function in X-SAMPA, the "native" encoding of the IPA (as far
> as I can tell) of this group.
Oh, I see. I have resolutely refused to learn (X-)SAMPA and am sorry to
see that Dirk is no longer a fellow refusenik.

--And.

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