I've been doing my best with the labelling... Inevitably the odd nit-picky
query comes up. Here's one you'll all have encountered relating to the /D/
in jh0002.
It seemed to me (you may disagree, but please answer as if you DID agree!)
that this was entirely devoiced, i.e. onset of voicing coincided with
beginning of vowel. In such a case, do you want to mark the segment
boundary as "D_0" *as well as* "D"? In other cases, if (say) a voiced
fricative actually *is* both voiced and fricative throughout, can we simply
give it the default label and not worry about sub-segments?
When marking stop-closures, do you want "tc" or "t_c" (instructions have
both)? Dead trivial but we might as well be consistent.
When we've done the files we're all doing, I'd like to be able to compare
notes before we embark on the UCL-only ones.
Any further thoughts about when we get together in Edinburgh? I am
targetting a train which gets in at 4:18, but I haven't booked yet and
could go earlier if necessary.
I'll be in my office and therefore able to pick up e-mail for about another
hour, then I plan to carry on labelling, which at the moment I have to do
in Wolfson House, where I'll be reachable on 0171-504 5004.
Best,
Jill