Re: Phonologically redundant vocabulary

Hi!

Jim Henry writes:
> On 4/13/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > Jim Henry writes:
>...
> > > http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/redundancy.htm
>
> > Nice stuff. :-)
> >
> > At the time of the thread, I was also thinking of a engelang with a
> > self-regregating morphology plus redundant word building.  These
> > are nice tools for implementing a beast like that.
>
> Cool.  I'm sure our languages will
??

>...
> have no minimal pairs can result in sets of 3-syllable CV(n)CV(n)CV(n)
> words that include very similar subsets like:
>
> nokunpun
> jakunpun
> kikunpun
>...
> linpunpun
>
> All differ by two phonemes, but all share two syllables in common.
> John E Clifford, in offlist correspondence, has suggested that
> maybe one should require words to have no entire syllables
> in common.
>...
For simplification of the complexity of the problem, how about using a
two-level algorithm: first compute a set of syllables with redundancy,
and then use these syllables as the alphabet for making a word with
redundancy on the syllables.  You then get a two-level redundancy
phonology: each pair of syllables is different in the minimum amount
of redundancy you choose, and each word is redundant wrt. syllables
used.

E.g. a very simple example:

Step 1:
   Slot 1: ptk
   Slot 2: aiu
   =>
   pa
   ti
   ku

Step 2:
   Slot 1: pa ti ku
   Slot 2: pa ti ku
   =>
   pati
   tiku
   kupa

Of cause, this is not yet self-segregating, but you could change the
slots to achieve that.

**Henrik

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