Re: THEORY: poetic devices [was: Hiatus in Artlangs]

[I've removed 'THEORY' from the subject line.]

Dirk:
> Also, many Native American songs make frequent use of "vocables",
> nonsense syllables which serve to fill out a metrical pattern.
In Livagian, any well-formed phonological string can unambiguously
be segmented into a sequence of phonological words, but sometimes
with non-word fragments between them. These non-word fragments
can be identical to words, in everything except for tone, and
so can be used either for pure sound effect or for half saying
something and half not saying it, a bit like saying in English
"that is ______ disgusting", with a silent gap, and during the
silent gap making the lip movements for, say, "fucking". I mention
these non-word fragments because Livagian poetry makes use of them
to fill out a metrical pattern.

--And.