Re: Phonologies

James Worlton wrote:

> Sandat David Peterson:
> > (Before I begin,  when I hit "reply" to this e-mail, it brought up your
personal
>  >address, James, and not the CONLANG address.  I forget what this is a
> symptom of.)
>
> I don't know about this one.
You have a reply-to address.  Sometimes when you configure your email client
it ask if you want a prefered address for replies.  You can (should) leave
it blank and people will reply back to you your personal email, and back to
the list your postings to conlang-L.

As for the topic of your emal, there are other factors that make the sound
system of a language beyond inventory of sounds, phonemes, phones, and
allophones.

Languages have certain restrictions in how sounds are combined; mostly known
as syllable structure but restrictions also apply to stressed/unstressed
syllables or in certain word possitions (i.e. Spanish /r/ and /rr/ both can
begin any syllable as longer as it is not word initial).  Some apply to
certain phonemes (i.e. English sillable onsets can be described as (S)C(L),
where S is /s/, C any consonant and L a glide, either /l/, /r/ or /w/, but
/l/ cannot combine with any consonant, like "dl" or "hl").

Then is accent: how (or if) the language marks syllables like stress, pitch
or tone.  How those marking affects words and sentenses, give information as
if the sentence is an affirmation or a question, etc.

Well, I hope this helps.

-- Carlos Th