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Re: TECH: Auto-Segmenting Engelang (was REQUEST: Engelang?)

From:Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 19:32
On Tue, 31 May 2005 15:30:52 -0400, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

>On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:58:42 -0700, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote: > >>Have you read RAM's part of LSoaMTI that deals with this? His solution >>is basically one of phonotactics, IIRC. >> >> - Sai > >Yes I have. I'm not thinking along exactly the same lines as him, though, >because it seems like he's looking for an ideal "machine-translation >interlingua". Furthermore, it seems he concentrates almost entirely on >written language, not spoken. I want to do more with the spoken form of >the language, because it's primal. So I plan to consider intonation, >prosody, stress, emphasis, etc.
Oh, I forgot to add something. Morneau uses some phonemes strictly for inflectional elements and others strictly for roots. I'd like to avoid that, if at all possible, because I find it unrealistic. :P - Rob