Re: fewest sounds?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 1:29 |
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:11:02 -0500, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> i and iii Where the only distinction is that iii has
> three times the duration of i. Otherwise they sound
> alike. It's called Morse Code.
I'd argue that Morse Code has phonemic silence, and that it's a writing
system rather than a language.
It's possible to avoid both these objections if you try hard enough. One
example is Machine Code, though it's not a human language, it's plausibly
linguistic -- certainly it's close enough to Chinese, for instance, or
Khmer.
Paul