Re: Llirine: How to creat a language

 Andreas Johansson wrote:
> What the in the blazing is "nonlinear phonology"?
> The phonolgy of
> non-segmental languages or what? (BTW, what is
> "linear phonology"?) I still
> don't understand what you mean by "phonetic
> type"/"one articulation type" -
> from your description it seems like a syllable. As
> for the "b" and "e" in
> "be" being articulated together, they are patently
> NOT articulated
> simultaneously if that's what you mean.
>
> Andreas
Answer: To find a correct unit of sound is the hope
since ancient Greece. For if we get a similar unit, we
can link the sounds with math like Cartesian cut a
straight line into pieces in order to calculate them.
When Plato describe syllable, he concerned both sound
and meaning. So 'bed' has to be one syllable. In fact
the word 'bed' need two actions of mouth, one is 'be'
the other is 'd', they are separated in time, or we
may say after you utter 'be' then 'd'. Yet if we
assign the meaning to 'be', what'll the 'd' for? So
they has to assign a meaning to the total sounds or
'bed' in order to make things clear. During recent
centuries, as the instrument can't detected the
syllables, then the Phoneme emerged. According the
atom/molecule theory at that time, people hope
separate sound into smallest elements then make them
universal. The test failed, ELL page 4209 :"At sound
pressure levels characteristic of many speech sounds,
the response of the cochlear partition to sound is
highly non-linear." page 4188 "These results support
the hypothesis that the CV syllable must have
functioned as a perceptual unit, because the syllable
must have been stored in preperceptual auditory
storage, and recognition involved a transformation of
this preperceptual storage into a synthesized percept
of a CV unit." In fact, in the case of 'bed', the 'd'
is not an ideal 'd', without any help of vowel, if you
want the listener catch it, some tiny vowel must be
there, and as our writing system didn't give symbol
for it, people simply ignored. And if you don't want
others catch it, why you give this action? Why not
like French just put some elements in silent?
According above, when you speak, you just give oral
actions one by one, every actions may have just a
vowel or a consonant company with vowel. In the case
of 'be', although we write it as this, but the sound
of 'be' is a total different sound from either 'b' or
'e'. We may say, these two letters just remind us a
new sound 'be' As for how many consonants and vowels,
different books give different answers, but in average
English has 20 consonants and 20 vowels. As every
consonant can combine each vowels to create a CV unit,
so, with the 20 single standable vowels, we roughly
give the number of 400 different phonetic types of
English
Su Cheng Zhong

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