Re: VCV syllables? (was: Different Words with Large Common Substrings)

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:40:30 -0500, Eldin Raigmore
<eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:11:19 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
>wrote:
>[snip]
>>The idea I had in might might better be expressed as a VCV Lego block for
>>building words.
>[snip]
>You know, the peak-through-trough-to-next-peak unit may deserve a name.
>[snip]
>So, a string of phonemes beginning at (or just after or just before) a sonority
>peak, descending in sonority through a sonority trough, then climbing in
>sonority again to then next sonority peak (or just after or just before), looks
>useful; at least for machine-assisted conlang-generation.
>
>What should we call such an "inverted syllable"?
>[snip]
>But VCV (and VVCV and VCCV and VCVV and so on) parts-of-words might also
>be useful; in fact, apparently, they are.  Since we won't call them "syllables"
>what will we call them?
>
>I guess this is a "Request For Proposals".
Maybe, "Lego block"?