Re: Llirine: How to creat a language

Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>At 2:41 PM -0500 12/04/01, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>What the in the blazing is "nonlinear phonology"? The phonolgy of
>>non-segmental languages or what? (BTW, what is "linear phonology"?)
>
>The 'nonlinear' of nonlinear phonology refers to a style of
>representation. The word 'slam' receives the following partial
>representation in (one version of) nonlinear phonology:
>
>-vc +vc
>  |  /|\
>  * * * *
>  |/    |
>COR    |
>       nas
>
>This is contrasted with the linear view of phonology, in which
>morphemes are represented as sequences of feature bundles, sometimes
>arrayed in a matrix:
>
>                 * * * *
>consonantal     + + - +
>sonorant        + - + +
>vocalic         - + + -
>voice           - + + +
>nasal           - - - +
>continuant      + - + -
>anterior        + +   +
>coronal         + +   -
>strident        +
>high                -
>low                 +
>back                -
>round               -
>
>The terms 'linear' and 'nonlinear' are perhaps unfortunate, but they
>are pretty entrenched now in phonological theory.
So it's only a difference of representation? If so, Su's original coment
makes no sense, but then again, so do many of his coments.

                                           Andreas

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