Re: phonemic silence??
| From: | Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 12, 2005, 0:34 |
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On 7/12/05, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> I thought of something that I found very odd: a phonemc silence
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> Is there a language in which the lenght or simply the presence of a silence
> in a sentence could mean something concrete?
Lojban has a phonemic pause. From Lojban Reference Grammar Chapter 3:
The period represents a mandatory pause, with no specified length; a
glottal stop (IPA [/]) is considered a pause of shortest length. A
pause (or glottal stop) may appear between any two words, and in
certain cases -- explained in detail in Chapter 4 --- must occur.
Therefore, it is an allophone of [/]. Chapter 4 Section 9 defines
"Rules for inserting pauses". One interesting case is that names and
foreign texts need mandatory pause. This is to ensure "no ambiguity"
rule of Lojban.
Seo Sanghyeon
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