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9 Computer readable phonemic transcription

  1. Lexical level - grapheme-phoneme translation
  2. Phonotypic level - phonemic variants, phonological rules
  3. Phonetic level - subphonemic variants, allophonic rules

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SAMPA (SAM Phonetic Alphabet - ESPRIT Project: `Speech Assessment Methods')

Specification:

ASCII 32 ... 127 encoding

Union of phoneme inventories, originally for European languages

Similarity to orthography of language concerned

Similarity to IPA characters and their phonetic intepretations

Compromises where clashes of criterion occur



Dafydd Gibbon
Wed May 22 10:39:25 MET DST 1996