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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > on 3/6/02 1:14 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > > > > > I guess I'll wait to see the full phonemic inventory before making any > > further comments on this. On the Web page, could you please add ASCII > > IPA equivalents for all the letters, in addition to the phrase book > > style approximations (Boy, fAther, EE-wah, and so on). And could you > > list all possible diphthongs and triphthongs in the same way? That > > would make it much clearer for me. > > I think I know how to do IPA in ascii. Anyhow, here's my attempt at the > full inventory at > http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.htm > > My only doubt is whether /e/ is right for the sound in english bed, or if I > need the little backward three that I can't figure out how to do in html. In ASCII IPA, it's /E/. Are you going to have [E] contrasting with [ej]? In that case, the phonemic notation doesn't have to be as precise as the phonetic notation, and you can probably write /e/ (spelled <e>) and /ej/ (spelled <ey>). Do you plan on specifying every allophone of every phoneme? > Mike and everybody else, please let me know if the alphabet page is clear > and comprehensive I'd still like to see a listing of all acceptable diphthongs and triphthongs. The rest looks okay. (However, the columns don't line up for me. They look like snakes running down the page. I wonder if tables would work best for people with different systems.) -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _____________________________________________________ "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." -- Charles de Gaulle