> We think the label should be D_0.
> There would be no D alone in these cases.
> This solution loses the neat hierarchical organisation of having the "end
> of the phone" marked by a single letter. The criterion for the "end" will
> have to be
> (i) the RIGHTMOST label for the phone
> except that where there's more than one possible ending, it will
> be
> (ii) the rightmost label for the phone that does not contain _#
>
> Note: I (Sarah) *think/hope* that this convention has an added advantage:
> you can of course get voiced and then voiceless /z/, for example. On
> current criteria, these should be marked z ...... z_0. (not z_v ......
> z_0 , because z implies voiced). If the end of the phone is the rightmost
> label (with proviso (ii) above), then using z ..... z_0 is not a problem.
> (It is a problem if z means end of phone, as well as voiced.)
Sorry not to have been on the ball earlier. It probably isn't a big
problem, but lab_# subsumes lab_0, so z_0 would fail on count (ii) above.
Presumably any search mechanisms we may use would just have to know that
# > 0.
See you in Edinburgh.
Paul