1989/07/01 by J. C. Wells · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Lexicography and Language Studies #ASCII #Notation #Salient #Linguistics #Computer science #Statement (logic) #Phonology #Phonetics #Programming language #Artificial intelligence
paper · doi:10.1017/s0025100300005892
openalex publication_date 1989/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/30
This paper is intended to provide a general orientation regarding the articulatory phonetics of the languages involved in the SAM project, as described in Wells (1987): it comprises a brief statement of the phonemic system of each language (the consonants and vowels, and how they are transcribed), together with notes on the most salient realizational and suprasegmental characteristics. As in Wells (1987), the objective is to assign a computer-coded phonemic notation, referred to as SAM-PA, using only the printable symbols from the 7-bit ASCII series.