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Re: Llirine: How to creat a language

From:Cheng Zhong Su <suchengzhong@...>
Date:Monday, December 3, 2001, 23:09
 Andreas Johansson wrote: What do you mean by
"phonetic type"? You're
> obviously not meaning "phoneme", > since English don't have even close to four houndred > of them (it's closer to > forty, but I'm to lazy to check right now, and it > varies from dialect to > dialect in any case). Syllables? Assuming twenty > possible onsets, ten > possible centers (vowels) and twenty possible codas > (all underestimates of > the English inventories), we land on 4000 possible > syllables. So what are > you talking about? > No matter what you mean, I very much doubt that > thinking speed is seriously > affected by linguistic issues (for starters, you may > want to recheck your > assumption that the time needed to analyze one unit > out of a set of two is > the same as the one needed to analyze one out of a > set of four houndred). > > > Andreas
Answer:Both syllbal and phoneme are from linear phonology, as in late twenty century, there is an nonlinear phonology. J.R.Firth gave an new unit of sound 'one articulation type'. The idea of both consonant and vowel being regarded as oral motions in series was wrong one. It was cheated by letters created by human being, in fact, when you say 'be' you can separate 'b' from 'e' . They were uttered togather. We say that's a phonetic type or one action of mouth. I think there are more explanation in: http://www.geocities.com/intelligent888/ARTICAL.doc http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Get organised for Christmas early this year!

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