<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130">Dear Ian,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130">I think even with distinctive features, there could be some doubt about whether the symbols used by linguists are "cross-linguistically unified" ... See <a href="https://linguistics.osu.edu/sites/linguistics.osu.edu/files/dissertations/mielke2004.pdf">Mielke's</a> book <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130">best,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130">Adam <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:39 AM JOO, Ian [Student] <<a href="mailto:ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk">ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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,
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Post-doctoral Researcher <br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Friedrich Schiller Universität<br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Department of English Studies<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>