Troubleshooting undefined phonetic characters

Problem

The Undefined Phonetic Characters dialog box appeared automatically or when opened manually.

Explanation

In Phonology Assistant (PA), the phonetic characters consist primarily of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in the Unicode character encoding.

For information about IPA and Unicode on the Web, you can go to:

• https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/

• http://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html

PA includes some non-IPA characters in the standard inventory.

Solution

Do one of the following:

• In the data sources, edit the transcriptions to use only the phonetic characters defined in the standard inventory.

• When you see an experimental transcriptions ScreenTip, convert undefined characters to the corresponding standard characters.

• Continue working with the transcriptions as they currently exist.

  However, an undefined character has neither a type (consonant, vowel, diacritic, and so on) nor any features (aspirated, bilabial, close, and so on).

Examples

Here are some undefined characters and the corresponding standard characters. Unicode character values are in parentheses.

For these examples, we recommend solutions 1 or 2.

Related Topics

Phonetic Transcriptions overview

Troubleshooting

Undefined Characters in Class