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.
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