Click twice in the cell
in the Sequence column and enter
the ambiguous sequence you want Phonology Assistant (PA) to treat
as a single phone.
Select (
)
Treat as one unit? if you want
PA to treat the sequence as a phone or clear Treat
as one unit? if you want to keep the ambiguous sequence in
the list without it affecting how PA divides transcriptions into phones.
Optionally, to change what
character in the phone is considered the base character, click twice
in the cell in the Base Character
column and enter the desired base character.
Select the desired row,
and then press Delete.
As examples, here are some
common ambiguous sequences:
The specified base character
must be found in its associated ambiguous sequence.
The base character is determines
what type of phone the sequence represents (consonant or vowel). It
also determines where Consonant
Chart view or Vowel Chart view displays the phone by default.
PA treats an ambiguous sequence as a variety of
the first phone in the sequence for
sorting, not the base character.
When there are multiple
ambiguous sequences, PA disambiguates the longest sequence first.
When two sequences are the same length, the one occurring first in
the list will be disambiguated first.
PA applies Experimental
Transcriptions conversions before disambiguating
ambiguous sequences.