Re: X-SAMPA
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 19:15 |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:46:46PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> What do other people do about this?
Well, in the case of my conlangs, I create a transcription system;
I only need the correspondences in one place.
> In the section on diacritics, is the underscore part of the X-SAMPA
> transcription, or is it simply a place-holder for the character that needs
> the diacritic? e.g. Do you write a labialized voiceless alveoler stop as
> t_w or as tw? (I am assuming that it is the former because that is the
> only way that it could be differentiated from a consonant plus glide
> sequence.)
You're correct - the underscore is part of the transcription.
> BTW, what does X-SAMPA stand for?
eXtended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet.
Which has everything to do with the origins of the system and not much
to do with describing it. :)
-Mark