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diacritic
Description of the phonex diacritic supplementary matcher.

Phonex
- Introduction
- Language Reference
  - Phone Matchers
    Various methods of matching phones using phonex 2.0.
  - Boundaries
    Description of special boundary markers.
  - Quantifiers
    Description of phonex quantifiers.
  - Groups
  - Syllable Matcher
  - Comments
  - Phonex Constructs
    A summary of all possible phonex constructs.
  - Supplementary Matchers
    - Overview
      Supplementary matchers in phonex 2.0.
    - stress
      Description of the phonex stress supplementary matcher.
    - sctype
      Description of the phonex sctype supplementary matcher.
    - diacritic
      Description of the phonex diacritic supplementary matcher.
    - prefix
      Description of the prefix supplementary matcher.
    - suffix
      Description of the suffix supplementary matcher.
    - comb
      Description of the comb supplementary matcher.
    - tn (tone number)
      Description of the tn supplementary matcher.
- Examples

diacritic

Description of the phonex diacritic supplementary matcher.

The diacritic supplementary matcher queries the diacritic sections of a phone. It accepts a single parameter which can be either:

A single character
A feature set matcher
A phone class matcher

The matcher will match if any of the diacritics of the phone match the provide argument. This matcher also has a short-hand within phonex, the argument provided may be specified by using the & character after a phone matcher.

Search for any phone that has a diacritic.

.:diacritic("{}")

or

.&.

Both of these expressions will search for any phone with the diacritics which add the {labial} or {aspirated} features.

.:diacritic("[{aspirated}{labial}]")

or

.&[{aspirated}{labial}]