[UFT8]ASCII-IPA for non-syllabic
- From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:59:57 -0500
I posted the following to alt.usage.english. In the six hours that followed I received no response except from a poster who wrote nothing except incorrectly that one should enable "View as HTML" in order to read it. I hope to do better here. Three notes first:
1) I have set follow-ups to include alt.usage.english
2) It is posted in UTF-8, so you will need to view it that way
3) You will need a font including the IPA character set.
[original post follows]
The charts for ASCII-IPA that I have found do not include a diacritic
for "non-syllabic". For transcribing words like the German <Uhr> IPA
/uːɐ̯/, X-SAMPA /u:6_^/ such a symbol would be useful. If there is no
such diacritic, is there a reasonable replacement?
Perhaps I am being silly and there is no phonemic distinction, at least
for German, between IPA [ɐ], X-SAMPA [6] and IPA [ɐ̯], X-SAMPA [6_^] and
I might as well just use ASCII-IPA /u:&"/ for <Uhr>. Langenscheidt,
after all, uses (check the square braces) [uːɐ] in its Pocket Dictionary
and [uːr] in its somewhat larger Compact Dictionary (my big
Langenscheidt has no phonetic transcription at all for most German
words). The L. Pocket Dictionary pronunciation guide has no separate
entry for (the vowel symbol) [ɐ], treating it in the consonant section
under the entry for [r] as "the uvular r".
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