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Re: A phonology

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Monday, July 28, 2003, 8:22
Staving Jesse S. Bangs:
>Peter Bleackley sikyal: > > > 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. > >This is not a fatal error, but it is an exception: in all natural >languages, onsets are more common than codas. > > > 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] > > > > [snip] > > > > 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] > >This also directly goes against natlang phonology, in which there are >fewer possible coda consonants than possible onset consonants, and in >which onsets tend to be stops and codas tend to be sonorants. If you're >trying to be deliberately strange, that's fine, but I thought I'd warn >you. >
Yes, you've got me, I am trying to be deliberately strange. You remember that Idea I had a couple of weeks ago for a 1POS language where almost everything depended on context? It's the phonology for that. Of course, as a speaker of a language where [N] is always syllable final, a phonology where it can only be syllable initial is just the kind of thing I'd do for weirdness value. Pete Pete