Re: Miapimoquitch cat's cradle

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.

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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