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Re: Miapimoquitch cat's cradle

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Monday, April 15, 2002, 20:44
At 10:01 PM +0100 04/13/02, And Rosta wrote:
>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.
Huh. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I recall discussion here several months ago in which the consensus seemed to be "use X-SAMPA; at least it's a standard, even if it isn't perfect". I thought that that made sense, so I thought I'd try to use it -- at least for examples that I'd actually like people to pronounce. I do try to distinguish between phonological and phonetic levels and confine my use of X-SAMPA to the phonetics. I'm not willing to use it for phonological representations; I prefer my own system there. I certainly don't intend to start another thread on ASCII IPA; those discussions rank right down there with "In my dialect we say X". Next time I'll post in the Deseret Alphabet. (Of course, I ought to be posting in the Deseret Alphabet anyway, since that is the source orthography for all of my Miapimoquitch data. I guess I'd better go and work it out now.) Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu "Today is just like yesterday, only it's not over." - Dennis the Menace