Re: Another Daniels screwup [was: Re: Claims [was: Re: Drifting phonemes [was: Re: The AmE 'o' sound]]]

From: Bob Cunningham (exw6sxq_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:18:03 GMT

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:37:00 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> said:

[...]
 
> I never even heard of Sampa until someone accustomed to
> posting to biblical lists sent a message to the ANE List.

A few years ago a well-known phonetician* said to me, on
learning of Kirshenbaum ASCII IPA, "It's too bad they went
to all that trouble when SAMPA was already available".

Kirshenbaum ASCII IPA was devised starting in August 1992**;
SAMPA, "in 1987-89"***.

One thing I like about SAMPA is the use of [Q] instead of
[A.] for [vwl,bck,low,rnd].

* I've suppressed the name of the well-known phonetician out
of respect for the privacy of e-mail.

** http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/

*** http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm

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