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Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 18, 1999, 4:21
Edward Heil wrote:
> You can't go more than five levels deep in the language as I've figured > it out at this point.
Add some more vowels, or length contrast. If you distinguish mid-open and mid-close (/e/ vs. /E/), and front and back a's (/&/, /A/), you can have 8 vowels, and if you add a long-short distinction, you can double that to 16. Add nasality to double it to 32. Heck, include tone and you can increase it even more. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor