Re: meaning of capitalization and italic in phonetc transcription

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:58:35 GMT

Kornelis wrote:
>
> In an article of Bernard Bloch ("Phonemics" from _Language_ 26 86-125
> (1950) reprinted in _Bernard Bloch on Japanese_ (1970)) Bloch uses
> apparently capitalization and italics to distinguish between allophones.
>
> As in a list (1970:149):
> i [I,i,Ä©]
> e [e,áº*]
> a [A,a,ã]
> o [O,o,õ]
> u [U,u,Å©]
> ...
>
> and italics for p, t, k, h, b, g, r, ÅÐ (between [ ]'s).
>
> What is the meaning of capitalization en italics in this context?

Looking at the reproduction of the article in Joos's *Readings in
Linguistics [I]* (the title, BTW, is not "Phonemics," but "Studies in
Colloquial Japanese IV: Phonemics"), I find on p. [91], the right half
of p. 331, in n. 13, the explanations "Italic letters denote palatalized
sounds" (and a definition of palatalization), and "Capital letters
[actually small caps, with the exception for obvious reasons of O]
denote voiceless vowels."

If the 1970 reprint doesn't include the footnotes, pitch it out the
window; it is useless. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net