Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 13, 2003, 15:32 |
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>Would it be possible to have a language without syllables? or for
>example...
Could you elaborate on what you mean? To my mind, there's such too close a
link between "syllable" and "phoneme", even though I know they aren't
synonymous.
>with the word "forustruvat", have "for-rastr-struv-vat"?
I suppose, depending on the language, if all syllables had to be CVC in the
spoken langauge but, because of this, could be contracted in the written
one: C1VC2+C2VC3 -> C1VC2VC3. Sort of the inverse of what Englsih and some
other natlangs do.
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