--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
> I presume the reason Solresol called for a
> pause at the end of each word is
> that otherwise it would be very hard to tell
> where each word ends. If you have
> only seven possible syllables/notes as in
> solresol (or a similar small number
> for some other musical language), what would
> you do instead?
Introduce some kind of STOP sequence? Either at
the end of each word (unnecessary, I think) or at
the end of a phrase.
> That is, if
> there are 7 notes represented as 1-7, how would
> one tell whether the sequence
> 12754363234452 should be divided into words as
> 127 5436 3 234 452 or 12 7543 632
> 344 52 etc. etc?
Howdoyouknowhowtodividethissentence? Normal
speech is connected - we don't have breaks in
between. I'm not sure what knowledge of how to
divide such sequences is called.
Padraic.
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