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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dear Alexandre<BR>
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The superscript equals is given in Pullum & Ladusaw (p. 206). They refer to Wells (1982, xvii) as the source.<BR>
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Greville G. Corbett<BR>
Surrey Morphology Group<BR>
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On 3/4/08 16:48, "Alexandre Arkhipov" <arxipov@PHILOL.MSU.RU> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial">Dear colleagues,<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Does any of you know of an appropriate transcription symbol for *un*aspirated consonants?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Background:<BR>
-- We are trying to find some (quasi) standard symbol to mark the unaspirated in (some of) the Nakh-Daghestanian languages, where the aspirated stops and affricates are the unmarked option and very frequent; on the contrary, the unaspirated are marked and rare. So we'd like to put no additional symbol for aspiration, marking the unaspirated instead.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">-- This is for a transcription system that is an adaptation of the IPA to the tradition of Daghestanian studies, it is not strictly IPA (the IPA transcription will be provided separately). We don't want to invent something ad hoc but for the moment we don't see any widely used symbol that would fit.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">-- The IPA charts (including 2005 revised version) only have a symbol for the aspirated -- a superscript small h.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">-- The Unicode standard lists a character "modifier letter unaspirated" (U+02ED) which seems to be a superscript equals sign, but we've never seen it used anywhere -- are any of you familiar with it?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">-- The best option for us, typographically, would be a symbol placed either below the main character or to the right of it. We are thinking of, for example, a minus or equals sign below, or of the famous triangular colon (which could, though, be somewhat misleading).<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">We will be grateful for any suggestions and comments.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Alexandre Arkhipov,<BR>
OTiPL at Moscow State University<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">(Cross-posted to LinguistList)<BR>
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