1. I have completed a version of the s-rtr.xml file.

2. Glosses:
Following Martin’s comments about marking up glosses, I have deleted all the asterisks (I think), and have tried to use seg and gloss tags in such a way as to ensure that the right words from the glosses will be singled out when creating the English-Moses wordlist.

3. Phonemic forms:
a) I have tried to be systematic about how I have indicated phonemic and narrow types. I think there is redundancy in what I have done, but the entries seem to me to be easier to read now. Martin, could you look over the file with redundancy in mind and tell me what you think.
b) In phonemicizing the dictegs, and the entries themselves, I have made the following decisions:
(i) The so-called ‘phonemic’ forms are not identical to underlying forms in all cases. For example, when a morpheme has more than one allomorph, one stressed, and one unstressed, and the unstressed allomorph involves changes in vowels, or some similar change, then I have stayed fairly close to the pronunciation of the unstressed variant in the ‘phonemic’ form. Thus, in the case of a suffix like =áw’s~=u?s, I am writing the unstressed variant as =u?s--writing =aw’s would make it hard for speakers/learners to know how to pronounce the form without learning complicated rules. If, however, in the phonetic form Kinkade has recorded =o?s, then I change the ‘o’ to ‘u’ in the phonemic form. Similarly for a morpheme like =míx~=mx~=ExW (E=schwa, W=raised w), I write =ExW in the phonemic form (rather than =mix, or =oxW).
(ii) I am leaving out all unstressed schwas in phonemic forms, except those that occur in reduplicative morphemes, those that occur in roots, and those that occur in a few suffixes (e.g., =ul’ExW), where they are unpredictable synchronically. This phonemic transcription thus differs from the orthographic representations found in the Nx Language Program dictionary edited by Nancy Mattina.
(iii) In loanwords, I am transcribing vowels as Kinkade transcribed them, even if they are not fully phonemic (e.g., spanyol I have phonemicized as spanyol, and not as spanyul). This decision is made to allow the spelling to reflect the loanword status and to make pronunciation more transparent.
(iv) In the s-rtr file, I have transcribed all the xml-id forms and the phonemic forms with an initial s-rtr, even if Kinkade did not transcribe them all that way. The reason for this is to aid in alphabetization.

4. Next task: I plan to work on the Affix file to try to finish it. The reason for this is that then all the affixes are available to be referred to in hyphs. Does that make sense to you Martin?