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Re: phonemic silence??

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Thursday, July 14, 2005, 7:18
--- 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.
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