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Cross-Linguistic Transcription Systems
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Handling diacritics for consonants #40

Closed LinguList closed 6 years ago

LinguList commented 6 years ago

As @cormacanderson pointed out in his most recent review of the consonants.tsv in bipa, we run into some readability issues due to ugly combinations of diacritics.

Compare the following two identical sounds (the second is our major sound for now):

grapheme name
breathy-voiced alveolar plosive
breathy-voiced alveolar plosive

with the dental versions:

grapheme name
d̪̈ breathy-voiced dental plosive
d̪ʱ breathy-voiced dental plosive

I think we need some general distinction in how to handle sounds and what to define a s alias. I am inclined to say that for readability reasons, we should prefer spacing diacritics to non-spacing ones, even if this requires to re-work on the data.

LinguList commented 6 years ago

Will close this now, as our new version accounts for this more properly, as I think.