Re: Donkey and monkey

Brian M. Scott wrote:
On 1 Jan 2007 13:41:18 -0800, "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx"
<ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in

why shouldn't it be possible to make a phonetic
transcription sufficiently detailed that it is
unnecessary to mark the stresses? [...]

You're simply talking about a more detailed marking of
stress.

Very well; is there a convention for more detailed marking of stress?
Something that shows aspiration of t's, devoicing of r's, marks
stressed vowels differently, etc.? Alternatively, is there a monograph
that supplies a detailed enough description of English stress that one
can write a program to convert a phonetic transcription marked for
primary and secondary stress into a more detailed phonetic
transcription with syllables no longer marked by ' and , but rather,
marked by the phonetic details?

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