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From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2002, 18:02
Very impressive and very much fun!  And mostly just the kind of consonant
systems I like (wicked)!


At 22:59 2002-08-06 -0700, Marcus Smith wrote:
>This issue doesn't arise much in front-central-back distinctions, except >with the low vowels. There's a strong tendancy to see back-/A/ rather than >central-/a/, partially (but not mainly) due to the arbitrary borderline >between central and back. > >I'm not sure how to fix this problem without some complicated scheme of >assigning vowel labels depending not only on the frequency of the vowel, >but also on what other vowel symbols have been assigned, which starts >getting more complicated than the algorithm for figuring out the values in >the first place. *Sigh*
Maybe tweaking the borderline between /e/ and /I/ in favor of /e/? And similarly WRT /A/ vs. /a/ of course -- not that this later tendency is quite as irritating as the other one. /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)