User:Aeusoes1
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I'm AE, a 2005 graduate of Fresno State's English program. I'm 25 years old. My interests include Science Fiction, Linguistics, and Astronomy. I'm probably more likely to make minor edits on existing articles than make major contributions.
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[edit] Contributions
I've taken a bit of attention to Non-native pronunciations of English, and Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages. I hate those titles but can't think of better ones.
I started Swadesh list of Slavic languages and transcribed the Russian part into a narrow IPA transcription, created the articles for, Iwam language, Yanesha' people,[1] Yanesha' language, ikanye and yekanye[2] and reorganized and verified information at Russian phonology and Catalan phonology to their present organizational states. I've also contributed phonology information to Rotuman language, Pazeh language, Abau language, Gilbertese language, Jamaican Patois, and Nauru language.
As much as I know about Russian phonology, I don't speak much of it.
I've also added some quality tables and information to syntactic similarities of creoles and post-creole speech continuum.
Despite my seeming awareness of creole grammar, I don't speak any creoles... yet.
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| Awarded for generously giving of time and expertise (especially in the preparation of the new tables on the Romanized Popular Alphabet article). Nposs 05:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] De-linking IPA
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I occasionally get flak for de-linking IPA characters, so I figure I'll put a little bit here for those of you trying to figure out my motivation:
According to Wikipedia Convention (the discussion of which is in this talk page), IPA transcription should not be linked because the characters, especially those with descenders or diacritics may be obscured by an underline. While most instances of linked IPA characters have been in charts where the link is entirely redundant (if [m] is in the bilabial column and the nasal row, I'm pretty sure the typical reader will understand that it's a bilabial nasal), there are some instances where this is not the case. There are several strategies to appropriately providing links to the individual phone pages in such situations:
- 1. Follow or precede the character with a description, this description itself can be linked: "Speakers use a voiced retroflex fricative (IPA: [ʐ]) word-finally."
- 2. Provide a general IPA warning: ({{IPA notice}} works either at the top of a page or the beginning of the first section that uses IPA.
- 3. User User:AdiJapan has pointed out that class="nounderlines" will remove the underlines for a link (I'm guessing that one would use this in a table), which then makes the whole debate moot. If you really think it's necessary to have a link to the individual characters, then I suppose that's the way to go. But the default way that I've been operating is with the assumption that such links are undesirable.
I hope this has clarified things for everyone.
[edit] IPA ligatures
Similarly, I tend to remove IPA ligatures in the representation of affricate consonants (i.e. ʦ ʧ ʨ ʣ ʤ ʥ). The most important reason is that these are not official IPA. Maybe some prestigious linguists can correct me on this, but as far as I can tell such ligatures used to be standard IPA practice. Another reason is consistency; for languages with other types of affricates (such as retroflex, alveolar lateral, labial, uvular or interdental affricates) there exist no ligaturing mechanism in unicode so that a dental sibilant affricate would be [ʦ] but a velar affricate would be [kx] and that's not fair.
But AE, you say (or, if you're being pithy, Æ), without such ligatures, readers may mistake an affricate for a plosive + fricative cluster. Remember that we're talking mostly about English speakers who have little conception of the distinction, though they certainly make it:
- |kæt| ('domesticated feline') + |ʃɪt| ('fecal material') → [kʰæʔʃɪʔ] ('litterbox monuments')
- |kætʃ| ('receive by grasping') + |ɪt| ('pronoun referential to non-human entity') → [kʰætʃɪʔ] ('exclamation from overzealous parents to their 9-year old little leagueer')
All right, all right. If making the distinction is that important to you, there is a remedy. No, not pot (though if you're getting your panties in a bunch over this, I'm sure it would only hurt your career). The best method is to use the tie bar such as with t͡s. Depending on your computer and browser, this may look like
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- tús.
- t□s
The second one is the way it's supposed to look. On my computer it's closest to this, though the tie bar is a little skewed to the right. If I had my way, I'd be putting it like this ts͡ but this would solve the issue for Internet Explorer users by transfering the problem over to users of Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Mosaic, and Opera (oh, and more recent versions of Internet Explorer like the one that comes with Windows Vista). Naturally, this feeds a great consensus that Internet Explorer is wrong so the way we've been doing it at pages like Polish phonology, Russian phonology, voiced alveolar affricate, voiceless alveolar affricate, etc is t͡s or sometimes t ͡s.
So that's why I'm turning [ʦ] into [ts]. Join me, won't you?
[edit] People
(this is really for my own use)
People to watch
- Sburke: Makes various poor IPA pronunciation guides (although in good faith). Just want to make sure such edits don't last too long.
- Wikidudeman
People to know
- AdiJapan: Somehow I've been able to interact with this fellow in a civil manner. In some ways he's one of my first/few wikifriends
- Ëzhiki: Native speaker of Russian. Also an administrator if that ever becomes important.
- Angr: An administrator and a linguist.
- Kwami: Has a copy of SOWL. Administrator.
- Mzajac: Administrator.
[edit] Notes
- ^ translated from Spanish
- ^ merged to Vowel reduction in Russian,
[edit] C&P
This is a list of IPA symbols so that I can C&P with ease:
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[ ɩ ] [ ɷ ] [ ɼ ] [ ɿ ] [ ʅ ] [ ʆ ] [ ʇ ] [ ʓ ] [ ʖ ] [ ʗ ] [ ʞ ] [ ʠ ]
[ ʩ ] [ ʪ ] [ ʫ ] [ ʬ ] [ ʭ ] [ ʮ ] [ ʯ ] [ tʰ ] [ dʱ ]
[ tʲ ] [ tʳ ] [ tʴ ] [ tʵ ] [ tʶ ] [ tʷ ] [ tʸ ] [ tʹ ] [ tʺ ] [ tʻ ]
[ tʼ ] [ tʽ ] [ tʾ ] [ tʿ ] [ tˀ ] [ tˁ ] [ t˂ ] [ t˃ ] [ t˄ ] [ t˅ ]
[ ˆ ] [ ˇ ] [ ˈ ] [ ˉ ] [ ˊ ] [ ˋ ] [ ˌ ] [ ˍ ] [ ˎ ] [ ˏ ]
[ ː ] [ ˑ ] [ ˒ ] [ ˓ ] [ ˔ ] [ ˕ ] [ ˖ ] [ ˗ ] [ ˘ ] [ ˙ ] |
[ ɛ˚ ] [ ɛ˛ ] [ ɛ˜ ] [ ɛ˝ ] [ ɛ˞ ] [ ˟ ] [ tˠ ] [ tˡ ] [ tˢ ] [ tˣ ]
[ tˤ ] [ ˥ ] [ ˦ ] [ ˧ ] [ ˨ ] [ ˩ ] [ ˪ ] [ ˫ ] [ ˬ ] [ ˭ ]
[ ˽ ] [ ˾ ] [ ˿ ] [ ɛ̀ ] [ ɛ́ ]
[ ɛ̂ ] [ ɛ̃ ] [ ɛ̄ ] [ ɛ̅ ] [ ɛ̆ ] [ ɛ̇ ] [ ɛ̈ ] [ ɛ̉ ] [ ɛ̊ ] [ ɛ̋ ]
[ ť ] [ t̍ ] [ t̎ ] [ t̏ ] [ t̐ ] [ t̑ ] [ t̒ ] [ t̓ ] [ t̔ ] [ t̕ ]
[ ɛ̖ ] [ ɛ̗ ] [ ɛ̘ ] [ ɛ̙ ] [ ɛ̚ ] [ ɛ̛ ] [ ɛ̜ ] [ ɛ̝ ] [ ɛ̞ ] [ ɛ̟ ] |
[ ɛ̠ ] [ ɛ̡ ] [ ɛ̢ ] [ ɛ̣ ] [ ɛ̤ ] [ ɛ̥ ] [ ɛ̦ ] [ ɛ̧ ] [ ɛ̨ ] [ ɛ̩ ]
[ ɛ̪ ] [ ɛ̫ ] [ ɛ̬ ] [ ɛ̭ ] [ ɛ̮ ] [ ɛ̯ ] [ ɛ̰ ] [ ɛ̱ ] [ ɛ̲ ] [ ɛ̳ ]
[ ɛ̴ ] [ ɛ̵ ] [ ɛ̶ ] [ ɛ̷ ] [ ɛ̸ ] [ ɛ̹ ] [ ɛ̺ ] [ ɛ̻ ] [ ɛ̼ ] [ ɛ̽ ]
[ ɛ̾ ] [ ɛ̿ ] [ ɛ̀ ] [ ɛ́ ] [ ͂ ] [ ̓ ] [ ɛ̈́ ] [ ɛͅ ] [ ͆ ] [ ͇ ] |
[edit] Templates
These are a few of my favorite things.
{{convertIPA}}, {{cleanup-ipa}}
- When an article needs to use IPA rather than ad-hoc or confusing systems.
{{IPA notice}}
- To let readers know you're using IPA.
{{Essay-entry}}, {{inappropriate tone}}
- When an entry doesn't have the right tone.
- When someone no speak-a good English.
{{Unreferenced}}
- When there's little to no sourcing.
{{Nofootnotes}}
- When there's sources but no citation
{{refimprove}}
- When there's some sources, but a need for more.
{{Onesource}}
- When it's based largely on one source.
