Re: Ambiguous 'N' (was: dive)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, johnvertical@ wrote:
>
> > Every halfway standardized ASCII-IPA variant I'm aware of (SAMPA
> > and Kirshenbaum, most importantly) uses capital N for the velar
> > nasal and a tilde for nasalization.
>
> In Torsten's defence, I've seen 'N' used alongside IPA characters
> to indicate a nasalisation phoneme. And among ASCII notations, we
> have the Kyoto-Harvard notation where N is the cerebral nasal and G
> is the velar nasal.

Thanks, Richard.

Actually I believe I picked it up from Piotr. IIRC the thing about it that appealed to me was that that way superscripts were consistently represented by capitals, making the notation easier to memorize. And if the N should be mistaken for the velar nasal, the damage is usually not great, since the distance of vowel + nasal velar to nasal vowel isn't large.


Torsten