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<p>Dear Ian,</p>
<p>A fragment of the kind of "multidimensional" notational system
that you seek is actually provided by the standard orthography of
Vietnamese, where the diacritics over the vowels, representing the
6 tones of Vietnamese, contain information involving not only
pitch but also phonation. Of course, as things stand, the
notation is language-specific: what you are asking for is for it
to be adopted cross-linguistically, e.g. for a V with a dot under
it to denote low tone with creakiness not only in Vietnamese but
for any other language that has a similar clustering of pitch and
creakiness.</p>
<p>However, for purely practical reasons, I suspect that the best
way to represent, say, low pitch plus creakiness, in a
cross-linguistically standardized fashion, would still be
compositionally, with a symbol for low tone plus another symbol
for creakiness. You would of course still be free to think of
the juxtaposition of the two symbols as a kind of "suprasegmental
digraph". <br>
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<p>David</p>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Dear
typologists,</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">I was wondering why
there isn’t a multidimensional way of transcribing tones,
like how we transcribe segmental phonemes.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">For example, the
transcription of the voiced bilabial stop (/b/) is based on
multiple dimensions of phonological features, such as
[+voiced, +labial, -nasal]. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">But why are tones
transcribed based on pitch only, such as Chao numbers (35),
tone letters (</span>˦˥<span style="font-family:Times New
Roman">), tone diacritics (´`¯ˆˇ), or capital letters
(HMLRF), and not encoding other cues, like creakiness,
length, tenseness, and intensity, when these cues may be
just as distinctive as pitch is?</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">In other words, why
is there no such cross-linguistically unified symbol as to
describe the [-long, +creaky, +loud, +high, +falling,
+tense] tone of Burmese, when there is a
cross-linguistically unified symbol to describe the
[+voiced, +labial, -nasal] consonant of Burmese?</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">I would like to know
why this is the case.</span></div>
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From Hong Kong,
<div dir="auto">Ian</div>
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