Re: A phonology

At 15:17 25/07/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Peter Bleackley wrote:
>>Here's a phonology I thought up in connection with my state-based language
>>idea (the one I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, which has only one part of
>>speech and one syntactical rule).
>>
>>Syllable structure
>>
>>[O]V[C]
>>
>>Where O is an onset consonant and C is a coda consonant. Codas are about
>>twice as common as onsets.
>
>I have just a little comment here (oops). Does V mean "vowel". If so,
>you should use N(ucleus) instead, when speaking about syllable
>structure. But this is just a detail.
>
>>Onset Consonants
>>
>>Possible onset consonants consist of the nasals
>>m       n       ng
>>[m]     [n]     [N]
>>and the approximants
>>w       r       l       y       ll
>>[w]     [4]     [l]     [j]     [5]
>>
>>Vowels
>>
>>Vowels are
>>i       a       u
>>[i]     [&]     [u]
>>Where two vowels occur adjacently within a word, they must be different.
>
>And what happens when two identical vowels ? Do they merge ? Do you
>insert an epenthetic consonant (maybe [?] ?) ? I would be interested in
>knowing it.
>
>>
>>Codas
>>Coda consonants be any of the following stops
>>p       b       t       d       c       gc      k       g       q       qh
>>[p]     [b]     [t]     [d]     [c]     [J\]    [k]     [g]     [q]
>>[G\]
>>'
>>[?]
>>
>>Or any of the fricatives
>>ph      bh      þ       ð       sh      j       lh      x       gh      h
>>[p\]    [b\]    [T]     [D]     [S]     [Z]     [K]     [x]     [G]     [h]
>>
>>I've got an auto generated list of 2000 works created using this phonology,
>>which I'll send off-list to anyone who wants to see it.
>
>I am interested too ! Could you send to me at je@exuna.net ? Thank you.
>
Before I send this, I'd better point out a very embarassing typo in my
original message. I meant words, not works, thus making the list sound far
more impressive than it really is. Still interested?

Pete