Re: Listening to Conlangs

Quoting Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>:

> Joseph Fatula wrote:
>
> > I'm interested if anyone else has sound samples of > their languages online
> so we can all listen to them.
>
> I actually have a short dialogue in my conlang
> Nakiltipkaspimak up in Real Audio-format. The link
> is at:
>
> http://home.swipnet.se/escape/pimakdia.html
This is a neat language; I enjoyed your description of it, though
I wish there were more of it.  Just one nitpick:  when you say the
phonotactics are "CVC", I assume you mean that the language allows
CV and CVC syllables along with, apparently, V as well.  What about
VC syllables? I scanned through your examples and didn't see any
of those at first glance, which suggests your system is asymmetric:
codas are allowed, except when there is also no onset.  (Such a
system I think would pose an interesting problem for output-oriented
theories of phonology like OT since it implies that two constraints
with single violations, which in themselves would not rule out a
candidate, can do so if both are violated even though some higher
ranking constraint is not so violated.  Such systems are IIRC
attested, but rare.)

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