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Re: A phonology

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, July 25, 2003, 16:43
Peter Bleackley wrote:
> 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. >
IIRC that's a big violation of Optimality Theory, not that it matters..... Still, mightn't there be a tendency to reanalyze a word like up.a > u.pa?? Why not post a sampling of your forms to the List??
> 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. > > 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. > > Pete

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>