Citations:wedge

English citations of wedge

háček

• 1982, Thomas Pyles and John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language (3rd ed.; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; →ISBN, 9780155676084), page 49

  The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.

• 1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide (2nd ed.; The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London; →ISBN, 0226685365), pages xxiii,⁽¹⁾ xxiv,⁽²⁾ xxvi,⁽³⁾ 19,⁽⁴⁾ 29,⁽⁵⁾ 95,⁽⁶⁾ 160,⁽⁷⁾ and 208⁽⁸⁾

  ⁽¹⁾ Among the more obvious points of difference are the almost universal use among American linguists of the transcription ‘[ü]’ for a high front rounded vowel in place of the IPA’s ‘[y]’ and the use of the wedge diacritic on symbols for palato-alveolar fricatives and affricates.

  ⁽²⁾ Notice also the recommendation of Herzog et al. (1943) that the wedge diacritic should be used as an invariant indicator of palato-alveolar articulation.

  ⁽³⁾ Finally, the medium of the future: word processing on computing machines. Here standards like the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) signal set may have to be reckoned with: the tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.

  ⁽⁴⁾ Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent 〈ˇ〉 is also called that in names like Wedge C for 〈č〉.

  ⁽⁵⁾ Source: Roman alphabet lower-case c, with the wedge diacritic.

  ⁽⁶⁾ The recommendations of Herzog et al. (1934, 631), which formalized the use of the wedge diacritic in American transcription, used [ǯ] as the transcription for IPA [dʒ]. The regular analogic pattern of their recommendations was interrupted by the replacement of [ǯ] by [ǰ], presumably as a typographical compromise. As an example, Hoijer (1945, 8) uses a transcription which is otherwise consistent with previous recommendations except in the use of 〈j〉 for 〈ǯ〉. Cf. also Bloomfield (1933, 129), who uses 〈ǰ〉 for IPA [dʒ]. Source: Roman alphabet lower-case j, with the haček (‘little hook’) or wedge used for certain palato-alveolar consonants in the Czech orthography.

  ⁽⁷⁾ The symbol 〈r〉 is combined with a number diacritics to indicate varieties of r-sound in American usage. The tilde, the wedge, and the underdot are particularly frequent. The (superscript) tilde often marks a trilled articulation (Pike 1947, 7; Smalley 1963, 456–57); the wedge may mark the articulation as flapped (Pike 1947 (p. 7); Smalley 1963 (pp. 456–57)) or fricative (Maddieson 1984 (p. 240)); the underdot generally marks the articulation as retracted, which may mean retroflex (Pike 1947 (p. 7); Maddieson 1984 (p. 241)) or uvular (Pike 1947 (p. 7); Smalley 1963 (p. 457)).

  ⁽⁸⁾ The recommendations of Herzog et al. (1934, 631) which formalized the use of the wedge diacritic in American transcription used this character for a voiced palato-alveolar affricate consonant, IPA [ʤ]. […] Source: The character is Yogh with the wedge diacritic called haček (‘little hook’) or “wedge” used for certain palato-alveolar consonants in the Czech orthography.

• 1999, Florian Coulmas, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, page 193, “háček”

  The háček or ‘wedge’ <ˇ> is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. […] As a tone mark the wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.

Noun: IPA character ⟨ʌ⟩

• 1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide (2nd ed.; The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London; →ISBN, 0226685365), page 19

  Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent 〈ˇ〉 is also called that in names like Wedge C for 〈č〉.