Hi all, has anyone experience about how to use TEI to encode phonemic (and possibly phonetic) information in a text transcription? Also I would love to hear from people not using TEI for this purpose, I know there exist several software suitable for text analysis and classification (f.i. I've been pointed to this one: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/).

A couple of examples:

1. fallan I would like to mark the first 'a' in OE fallan as an /a/ and assign it to the OAngl dialect.

2. giong, geong, gong These are all graphical variants of an initial /jo/ diphtong, with geo- and gio- being graphical conventions to point to a palatal pronunciation of initial g.

After the encoding is done the goal is to recover statistical information (via XSLT or specific sw analysis) about the percentages of dialect tracts in a text, so to draw conclusions about its origin, date, etc.

Thanks in advance.

RRDT