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Re: Optimum number of symbols

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Sunday, May 19, 2002, 19:34
Quoting And Rosta <a-rosta@...>:

> The Livagian script has one character per 'syllabeme' (approximately > = syllable), plus further characters representing sequences of more > than one syllabeme, which serve to increase written brevity and to > exploit the greater ability of scripts (compared to phonology) to > sustain contrasts. The syllabeme is the minimal combinatorially > unrestricted unit of Livagian phonology. The Livagian script > contains thousands of characters, though, so is motivated more > by principle than by practical considerations.
So, is a "syllabeme" something like syllabification already present in underlying representation? ===================================================================== Thomas Wier "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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