Emaelivpar Dirk Elzinga:
>I feel in my heart of hearts that should someone work this way, the resulting
>phonology would be completely natural and idiosyncratic -- a true
reflection in
>speech sounds of a person's esthetic. You stand on the brink of this amazing
>discovery; I urge you to reconsider your distaste of phonology and find
out what
>you have. I think that the process would be illuminating. I'd be happy to help
>if you had questions.
T'ves emaelivpaer Jan van Steenbergen kes:
>I'm sure this is the case for Arthaey as well. I just can't understand why she
>doesn't want to investigate her language manually; after all, it would be
great
>fun to do so. By having it done by the computer, she misses hours of
>interesting, playful, and educative activity. My experience is that this
>activity alone creates an very good insight in how the language actually
works,
>and generates hundreds of new words as a nice side-effect.
Okay, okay, you guys have bullied me into it. ;) I'll give
hand-analyzation a shot and see how things go. I do have a question though
-- what things should I look for? I could see, for example, what
environments stops show up in, or where front vs back vowels are. I'm not
quite sure where to go from there.
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AA