Re: Unilang: the Phonology
| From: | Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 15:12 |
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Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>Oskar's presentation of his system made me wonder, once more, why many
auxlang projects are so preoccupied with phonemic minimalism.
>In an old auxlang project of mine (guilty, me too!) I did the opposite:
included in the inventory 70+ consonants and 10 short monophthongs (plus
tons of long mono- and diphthongs), and was thinking about tones.
Nice to see an opinion from the opposite of the spectrum.
I think it's most important that we recognize that there are two factors to
consider, _ease_, emphasized by "phonemic minimalists", as Basilius would
call them; and _renderability_, emphasized by Basilius (Basil?) himself.
Personally, I seek some sort of moderation; I want the phonemic inventory
to look fairly natural, i.e. not overly large and not too sparse either.
Óskar