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Cross-Linguistic Transcription Systems
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Code Base: Consider adding sound classes as a new datatype #86

Closed LinguList closed 6 years ago

LinguList commented 6 years ago

Sound classes differ from normal datatypes in so far as we may try to generate them, where a given sound is to complex by using a fall-back procedure. This procedure only makes sense for sound classes, so splitting of the sound class models as a third datatype seems to be in order, as it would facilitate representation as well (e.g., we do not need to list each sound class for a given grapheme in our graphemes/ view in CLLD).