more coding questions

[Yvan Rose]

Dear Cathy (if I may),
While I do not know what research questions you aim to address with your data, my advice would be to keep phonetic transcriptions on a separate, %pho tier, and restrict yourself to the level of detail you need in your phonetic transcriptions (e.g. here, make use of the relevant diacritics to encode consonant release). 

Doing so would enable you to take advantage of the analytic functions of Phon, without a need to make explicit coding of the type you're suggesting at all, via systematic comparisons between target/model IPA forms and the forms produced by the speaker(s) you are documenting. If you are not familiar with the Phon project, please see http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/phon/ or http://phon.ling.mun.ca for starters. 

I hope you find (some of) this useful.

Yvan Rose



On 2011-12-07, at 19:38, ceaton12 at umd.edu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've looked at the recent string of communication on the use of codes
> and have a related question. Is it possible to use codes that we
> invented (for phonological processes) in the main tier? We're using a
> +/- code immediately after the phonological event (examples: back
> [+rel]" or back [-rel] to indicate whether a final consonant is
> released or not). Obviously the first problem is that these codes are
> not recognized in the depfile, so files do not pass CHECK. The second
> problem is that FREQ doesn't count the codes since they're in
> brackets.
> 
> Any feedback would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cathy Eaton
> 
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