LL-L "Phonology" 2005.03.28 (13) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: Ben Bloomgren <ben.bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: IPA

Hello, List, my friend introduced me to the IPA, the International
Phonetic Alphabet the other night. I'm not really sure how to work it yet,
but I'd like to know how the Lowlands languages fit into the IPA. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. The only trouble is that I can't actually
rea  it. You'd have to use the descriptions such as c-wedge.
Ben

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Phonology

Hello, Ben!

The IPA can be used to describe the phonetics of *any* spoken language,
and this includes all the language varieties that are within our focus.

Please visit this site:
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

Your posting made me wonder if there is any IPA guide for the blind.  All
IPA symbols have names, so it should be fairly simple to put together an
online guide with descriptions and sound files that includes the blind in
its target usership.  Now there's a great service waiting to be rendered
if it hasn't already been rendered!

I should mention that a system of representing IPA symbols by means of the
basic ASCII range has been developed for electronic communication: SAMPA
(http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm).  In it, distinction
between lower- and upper-case letters is important, as are all sorts of
punctuation symbols, and I wonder if reading software for the blind can
make this distinction.

Ben, for your sake and for the sake of any other blind person on the List,
if any, I will try to remember making my SAMPA and IPA representations as
explicit as possible.  Please feel free to help us tweak the system.

Cheers!
Reinhard/Ron

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