<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Elena,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Thank you for your feedback. I interleave my reply below. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="3" class="">just to say that Phon (</font><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Φ</font></b>ων</span><font size="3" class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EL" style="margin: 0px;" class="">) </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">has:</span></font></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">1.</font><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" class=""> </span></font></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><font size="3" class=""><font class="">no Greek dictionary language. There is a reliable online
Greek dictionary at: </font><a href="http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/search.html?lq=%CE%91*&dq" class=""><u class=""><font color="#0000ff" class="">http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/search.html?lq=%CE%91*&dq</font></u></a></font></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><font size="3" class="">=</font></font></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>This looks like a fantastic resource. Our current IPA lookup system requires either a dictionary (listing) of orthographic forms and related IPA forms. If the people behind that online dictionary would be willing to share their list, that would be wonderful (this is how we obtained the transcriptions for our dictionaries, from speech research groups to online dictionaries). </div><div><br class=""></div><div>In case the Greek orthography is transparent enough, and believe it is, then all we need is to build a system of transliteration, which would map the graphemes of Greek with their IPA counterparts. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>"Greek is sufficiently transparent to allow complete sequential alignment
between graphemes and phonemes, therefore permitting full analyses at both letter and grapheme levels, using
every word in its entirety."</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reference: <a href="http://speech.ilsp.gr/iplr/ProtopapasVlahou_2009_BRM.pdf" class="">http://speech.ilsp.gr/iplr/ProtopapasVlahou_2009_BRM.pdf</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I would be happy to work with you on giving this a shot.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;" class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">2.</font><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;" class=""> </span></span></span><font face="Calibri" class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font size="3" class="">no Greek syllabifier language.</font></span><b class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt;" class=""> </span></b><font size="3" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">I can provide a comprehensive list of Greek </span><span lang="EL" style="margin: 0px;" class="">σ</span><span lang="EL" style="margin: 0px;" class=""> </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">and </span><span lang="EL" style="margin: 0px;" class="">σ</span><span lang="EL" style="margin: 0px;" class=""> </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">combinations</span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">,</span><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""> if you
want</span><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""> to add that to the program</span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13.33px 48px; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><font size="3" class=""><font class=""></font></font></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>All I need is to work with you and/or other specialists of Greek phonology to make this happen. If you could please send me a phonotactic description, I could certainly develop a syllabification algorithm for it. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13.33px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><font size="3" class=""><font class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">Also, </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">Phon </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">doesn’t recognize </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">all </b>Greek letters that I type on the
orthography tier and displays them as square symbols, though I set language preferences
to ISO ell.</span></font></font></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>This is rather surprising. If the encoding is good, then maybe the font (or typeface) doesn't support all the symbols. Can you please send me the symbols (with their unicode value if you have it) of the symbols that didn't appear properly?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I look forward to working with you on making Phon Greek-ready. This might also encourage the contribution of Greek data to PhonBank; that too would be significant!</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I suggest we move to a separate thread (please reply at <a href="mailto:yrose@mun.ca" class="">yrose@mun.ca</a>)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Yvan</div><div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>
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