the benefits of ELAN

[Albert Bickford]

Yes, that's what I meant.  Sorry I got the name garbled, and thanks for the 
reference.

If people aren't comfortable with Stokoe notation as the basis for a 
transcription, because of what we've learned theoretically in the last 40 
years, the same thing could be done for any transcription or coding system. 
You just have to develop some way of representing all the information that 
you want to capture, and to do it within the character set that ELAN 
supports.  We had to do that all the time for spoken languages in the 1980s 
and even into the 1990s, before special character support developed to the 
point that we could actually see the characters normally on the screen (and 
some of the makeshift representations, like 7 for glottal stop, have made 
their way into practical orthographies).  Makeshift representations are 
harder to use than being able to see the symbols on screen that we're used 
to seeing, but researchers can learn how to read the codes and they allow 
research to go forward.  So, that's what I recommend for people who need to 
have detailed phonetic/phonological information about sign languages in 
ELAN.

Albert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu>
To: <slling-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [SLLING-L] the benefits of ELAN


| "Albert Bickford" <albert_bickford at sil.org> wrote:
|
| #- a transcription system that is representable in Unicode, e.g. 
StokoeAscii (an
| #adaptation of Stokoe notation that is representable with ordinary ASCII
| #characters)
|
| Are you referring to "ASCII-Stokoe Notation", an adaptation I developed 
for my
| dissertation work? It's described at
|
|   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/~mamandel/ASCII-Stokoe.txt
|
| -- Mark A. Mandel
|   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
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