Lars Henrik Mathiesen fak:
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> > Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 15:49:33 -0500
> > From: The Keenans <makeenan@...>
> >
> > Whats sandhi?
>
> Sandhi is a Sanskrit grammatical term for the phenomenon where the
> last sounds in one word and the first sounds in the next merge or
> otherwise influence each other.
>
> In a sense it's most of the normal rules of word-internal phonological
> development, applied to whole spoken sentences --- but then poor
> students have to learn to apply all these rules to the dictionary
> forms of the words in order to write anything correctly.
Yep. that's it. Ok is polysynthetic and the daughter language I'm doing
now has sandhi to eliminate some of Ok's unweildy sound combos both
vowel and, consonant
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
Ekatrae (Thanks)
-Duke