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- Lexical level - grapheme-phoneme translation
- Phonotypic level - phonemic variants, phonological rules
- Phonetic level - subphonemic variants, allophonic rules
SAMPA (SAM Phonetic Alphabet - ESPRIT Project: `Speech Assessment Methods')
Specification:
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- ASCII 32 ... 127 encoding
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- Union of phoneme inventories, originally for European languages
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- Similarity to orthography of language concerned
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- Similarity to IPA characters and their phonetic intepretations
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- Compromises where clashes of criterion occur
Dafydd Gibbon
Wed May 22 10:39:25 MET DST 1996