Template:Sound correspondences between English accents/doc
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Usage
[edit]Converts accent-and-lexical-set-specific codes to their IPA values for the page Sound correspondences between English accents. For consistency and ease of use, please opt for using {{scbea|code}} rather than always having to write out {{Sound correspondences between English accents|code}}.
- Input
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- one string, named according to the system detailed below. The strings to use for each accent can be found in the "primary and secondary accent strings" section below.
- Output
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- an IPA transcription formatted using {{IPA}}.
Naming System
[edit]In order to avoid as much repetition as possible (thus going against the purpose of this template), keys should be named as follows:
- The format of keys should be "Primaryaccent(_secondaryaccent)-LEXICALSET(_allophone)", where terms in brackets are optional, primary and secondary accents are in sentence case, lexical sets are in all caps and allophones are in all lowercase.
- Where multiple alphabetically adjacent (and thus table-merged) accents have the same value in one lexical set, that key should be named according to the accent which is positioned closer to the top of the table.
- Where one value is used for the same accent in more than one lexical set, the key should be named according to the lexical set which is positioned closer to the top of the page.
- Primary and secondary accents are named according to the shorthands given below.
- Lexical sets and allophones are named as they are given in the tables.
Accent shorthands
[edit]Below are the shorthands for the accents used on the page, which the template calls. They are listed in the order in which they appear in the article, but alphabetizing them can be done by interacting with the table.
Examples
[edit]{{scbea|In-DRESS}}gives ɛ
{{scbea|AAVE_nr-TRAP_ham}}gives ɛː~ɛə̯~eə̯
{{scbea|AAVE_nr-TRAP_bad}}gives æ~ɛː~ɛə̯
{{scbea|SAf_clt-TRAP_ham}}gives æ
{{scbea|SAf_gen-TRAP_ham}}gives a~æ
{{scbea|SAf_brd-TRAP_ham}}gives æ~ɛ~e̞
{{scbea|SAm_old-TRAP_ham}}gives æɛæ~eə