Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?

> Date:         Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:08:55 +1100
> From: Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, nicole perrin wrote:
> > ([r] is American r and [R] is French r.  also [!] is
> > glottal stop, right?  geez i am getting rusty...)
>
> No, [!] symbolises a downstep, not something we conlanguers would use all
> that often I don't think. [?] is the glottal stop.
Now that you mention it... I'm working on a list of correspondences
between X-SAMPA codes and Unicode characters right now, and I'm a
little puzzled by the tones and contours part of the IPA chart.

The basic question is about the contour marks (vertical bars with
strokes to the left). Do they go before or after the voiced sound
during which they occur? (From the example of glottalization marked by
preposed /?/, I'm guessing that it's before).

Has anyone here worked with prosodic notation in IPA? Are the more
complex signs, high-rising for instance, even used in practice?

(It's not that important, though. Unicode only has the basic level
contour marks, corresponding to _B, _L, _M, _H, _T. Even rising and
falling, _R and _F, are missing. But I can show all those seven with
diacritics, so I think I'm just going to punt on multiple marks. If
you write a_/_\, I'll give you an a with a hacek and a circumflex and
let your Unicode display engine worry about fitting them).

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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