Re: disfluencies (was Re: English syllable structure)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 14, 2001, 17:23 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
>At 15:45 2001-12-13 -0500, Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:
>> From Nicole:
>>
>>>obconlang: does anyone have conlang equivilents to hesitation space
>>>fillers like 'uh' or 'um'?
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>>In Géarthnuns, it's just "ö". Yawn.
>>
>>Kou
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>A loan from Swedish, I take it! ;-)
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>In Sahlab it is _eh_ [@?] or [@:] and _ew_ [@w] or [@:w] or [@::w] or...
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In Kash it would be /e/ 'er.., umm...' or possibly /a/ 'oh...', or /na/
'well...'; if you need even more time to hesistate, /ena/
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