>Jim Henry wrote at 2005-09-08 13:29:12 (-0400)
> > On 9/6/05, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> >
> > > let's say that I have a conlang in which all the phonemes can be
>realised in
> > > (at least) two ways (from which) a consonant and a vowel and that the
>fact
> > > that it is realised as a vowel or a consonant depends of what it
>follows
> > > (precedes could work too)
> >
> > Someone has done this before in another conlang, but I don't
> > think it was very thoroughly developed. I'd like to see what you
> > come up with if you keep developing this.
> >
> > I don't remember the name of the aforementioned conlang,
> > but it was a loglang/engelang, and if I recall correctly it had
> > 16 phonemes each with a vocalic and a consonantal allophone.
> > There was also something about a binary tree lexicon, with
> > eight one-phoneme words, four of the other phonemes reserved
> > for starting two-phoneme words, two of the remaining phonemes
> > reserved for starting three-phoneme words, and the two remaining
> > phonemes used in some more complex way to form words of
> > four or five phonemes and maybe longer.
> > So it had self-segregating morphemes.
> > Hopefully this will be enough for someone else with a better
> > memory to identify it.
> >
>
>Aha, I know what you're talking about. Plan B.
>
>
http://www.rickharrison.com/language/plan_b.html
>
> "By providing both a vowel and a consonant
> pronunciation for each letter, and using
> them alternately, we can pronounce arbitrary
> strings of letters without difficulty. This is
> important: It modularizes our language design
> by decoupling our word-encodings from the
> details of the human vocal tract, letting us
> concentrate on other issues."