Created: 25 January 1999
Modified: 20 January 2006
Laves phonetics
Note: IPA and some other symbols on this page are displayed as small
GIFs.
Suggested transcription conventions
These keyboarding conventions have been developed by Barry Alpher
in studying the Athima notes.
transcription conventions
| keyboard |
Laves’ handwriting |
| r (glide) |
printed lc "r" |
| rr (flap) |
script lc "r",  |
| u |
small uc "u" |
| e |
lc epsilon |
| v |
shwa symbol,  |
| : (length) |
. single raised postcript dot |
| dj |
dj |
| ny |
nj |
| ng |
engma,  |
| th |
subscripted (dental) "t" |
| dh |
subscripted (dental) "d" |
| d2 |
"d" with a line through the loop |
| nggy |
nggj, as in Athima wuinggjinba ‘red
kangaroo’, poss.
/nyg/ |
Laves' notes on transcription
In his first notebook (August 1929), Laves has 9 pages of notes
(numbered
92 to 100 in AIATSIS MS 2188) which Laves apparently made at Sydney
from
a booklet
Phonetic transcription and transliteration : proposals of the
Copenhagen
conference, April 1925.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1926.
His notes include notations for vowel length, stress, tone ("not .
like Sapir"), syllabic & non-syllabic, voice & voiceless,
nasalization,
labialization, various series of consonants
Laves' notes on orthography
Laves stayed 6-8 March 1931 at the Grosvenor Hotel, Adelaide, on his
way
by train from Perth to Sydney
[information from Prof. I McBryde from Laves' receipts].
In Adelaide Laves consulted the Reuther mss.and made brief notes
including:
Phonetics are not too
bad although the distinction
I object to ( r = r
( rr = ?
= ng
Laves made a further note after meeting Norman B
Tindale:
Phonetic discussion with
Professor Ross-Herbert?
& Mr. Tyndale
Prof. is classically trained
& also interested in Provence
phonetics. Pretty bad
dj as in judge
_ † !
needs wholesale remodelling.
Leaving a copy of my
phonetic schema with
them and have discussed
phonetics at length with
Tyndale. Curious how
G.L. should speak so
authoritatively! vielleicht
ein wenig zu fest aufgetreten*
but no use in wasting
time on endless arguments
à la standard gauge.
Laves notebook 2.27
"25 February 1931 - / Albany / Adelaide / Sydney"
? a lower-case script r; these pair
of r's are in Tindale's chart
? this has to be Prof. JA Fitz-Herbert,
Professor of Classics 1928-1957 at University
of Adelaide
† a tailed-z, as in azure
* perhaps came on too strong
[translation
provided by LA Hercus]
Cf. NB Tindale note on Laves
Laves page
© 1999
URL: http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/laves/phonetics.html