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Old Chinese Gyalrong cognates
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Old Chinese brackets #7

Closed laiyunfan closed 4 years ago

laiyunfan commented 4 years ago

Concerning the non-IPA/not-in-Leipzig-rule Old Chinese annotations by B-S (such as in qʰo[n], ŋ(r)aj, etc.), I am reluctant of deleting them, since they are informative, rather than meaningless.

One solution could be something similar to this:

[a] --> a/.

(a) --> a/∅ (with an empty set symbol, not the vowel [ø])

As for the Leipzig-rule symbols, such as "-", "<>", and "." I think we can simply delete them since they are not informing about uncertainty.

What do you guys suggest?

LinguList commented 4 years ago

WE have the original data anyway in the field VALUE. So deleting the brackets is much easier than keeping them, as this would mean: you have to list ALL things that occur in bracketsin the orthoprofile and transform them accordingly. This can of course also be done, but I assume this will take some time to do it. Alterantive is of course: given that it's just 120 entries, one could make a manual representation that is giving the data in correct BIPA, but I think it is better to use orthoprofiles for all data here (otherwise, you'd have to manually add IPA for all datapoints).