--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Ray Brown wrote:
>
>I have often considered that musical conlangs (musilangs??) like Solresol
>could extend their phonemic inventory by giving note-length phonemic value,
>in which case pause-length might well also have phonemic value. Now there's
>a thought :)
So what would you do if you had to pause for thought mid-phrase? Schwa?
...Actually, that goes quite well together with the original idea posed by
Max:
>For a human language I'd find it weird (and like to know if it exists) but
>I can easily find a situation where it could happen in an alien specie that
>continiously produce a sound whith a part of their body and that stopping
>it could be phonemic.
-John Vertical
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