Re: phonemic silence??

>On 7/12/05, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@h...> wrote:
> > I thought of something that I found very odd: a phonemc silence
> > > 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.
>Seo Sanghyeon
*Any* voiceless stops have a period of silence in them -- eg the Finnish
word "took": <otti> /'ot:i/ is pretty much the same as /ot_} ti/. This is
far from phonemic, tho. But you might eg. change both halves of the stop
into something else with still keeping the silence therein - a few such
changes later you could well have developed a phonemic pause: /ot_} ti/ ->
/oh t;i/ -> /o: ki/ [oo_0 ci])

John Vertical

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