Thanks for this useful reference. The problem seems to me to be one of
general comprehensibility, in that relatively few people are aware of, or
are prepared to take the trouble of learning, the mappings. It's sometimes a
lot easier (and easier on list-members' patience?), to use a handy
circumlocution such as 'the sound in "law" ', unscientific though it is!
John F.
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From: "Steve Doerr" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: [EPNL] IPA Symbols (was Cambridge)
> > But there are other names which suggest that /au/ developed in ME in
> such > a position, and thence regularly to the sound in "law" (sorry
> again for
> > lack of IPA) in ModE
>
> There are some schemes in existence for representing IPA symbols using
> substituted characters from the ASCII character set (referred to as
> 'ASCII IPA'). One such is SAMPA, described here:
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm. Another, basically the
> same but differing in a few mappings (e.g. & versus { for the ae
> ligature) is described at
> http://www.alt-usage-english.org/ipa/ascii_ipa_combined.shtml.
>
> The turned c, representing the vowel in the word _law_ is represented by
> capital O in both systems (/lO:/.
>
> Steve
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