14.850, Qs: Tone Notation, Fortition Representation

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-850. Mon Mar 24 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.850, Qs: Tone Notation, Fortition Representation

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1)
Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:25:06 -0500
From:  "Stahlke, Herbert F.W." <hstahlke at bsu.edu>
Subject:  tone letters

2)
Date:          Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:10:45 -0500
From:          Matthew Absalom <matthew.absalom at UNISA.EDU.AU>
Subject:       Phonological treatment of fortition

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:25:06 -0500
From:  "Stahlke, Herbert F.W." <hstahlke at bsu.edu>
Subject:  tone letters

I've been looking, unsuccessfully, for fonts that contain a variety
tone letters or, perhaps, components that can combine into more
complex tone letters.  The SIL Encore fonts provide level and simple
contour tone letters but nothing for, for example, Mandarin
falling-rising or for the different contour tones of Vietnamese.
Also, the SIL fonts don't allow one to indicate differences in length
with tone letters.  I've looked through Unicode fonts and, while there
are simple tone letters, Unicode appears to offer no tone letter
components either.  However, I haven't fully mastered Unicode yet, so
I may have missed something.  Google searches have also failed to turn
up much.  I will be happy to report back to Linguist-L any information
I receive.

Thanks,

Herb Stahlke
Ball State University


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:          Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:10:45 -0500
From:          Matthew Absalom <matthew.absalom at UNISA.EDU.AU>
Subject:       Phonological treatment of fortition

Hi, I'm working on Italian phonology and have a query regarding fortition
processes. I am wrestling with how to theoretically represent a case of
fortition in one variety of Italian where spirantised consonants surface as
stops. In the traditional literature, this has been described as a case of
C lengthening but acoustically it is clear that this is in fact occlusion.
With the trad lengthening description, many scholars have represented this
theoretically as a case of mora filling - but in the case of fortition,
feature changing can't really be represented as mora filling (or can it?)
I'd be grateful for any suggestions, within any theoretical framework.

thanks, Matthew

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