Ask-A-Linguist Message Details
| Subject: | Consistency-checking manual transcriptions |
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| Question: |
For languages with no writing system or no very standardized writing system, are there any tools that support consistency- checking of manually created transcriptions? For example, I was reading a text in a grammar for an endangered language, and the writer had glossed and translated both uwE and iwE as ''2SG/you''; and I wasn't sure if that was intentional or a typo (iwE was much more frequent in the text than uwE). If not, how do linguists working with languages without standardized orthographies achieve transcription consistency, for approximately phonemic transcriptions? Thanks. |
| From: | Kristin Precoda |
| Date: | 28-Aug-2012 |
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