Re: Euphonic phonology (Was: 'Nor' in the World's Languages)

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:01:34 -0600, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
wrote:

>On 8/8/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Anyway, do others also have such a hard time finding personally
>> pleasing phonologies?  I find it awefully difficult.
>
>I too find it difficult. It's a fairly easy thing to collect a list of
>sounds that are appealing in themselves, but to get them to work
>together in a pleasing, or at least convincing fashion is the real
>trick. I like the sound of the language I work with professionally
>(the Goshute dialect of Shoshoni), but I didn't want Miapimoquitch to
>be an acoustic copy of it (which it was, when it was still called
>Tepa). I've been working hard to get the sound of Miapimoquitch right,
>and I think I almost have it. I'm still not sure about stress and
>intonation, though ...
>
>Dirk
>=========================================================================
I have trouble with making a really good phonology as opposed to a passable
one. I also have the problem of putting the phonology and morphology
together. That is I can come up with a morphology I like and an acceptable
phonology, but can't come up with a set of affixes (or whatever) that works
well.

Jeff

P.S. more details of Miapimoquitch will be welcome.

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