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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: [lojban] zo ki'a .e zo .y
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:59:42 -0500
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http://huh.ideophone.org/
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0078273

An article appeared a few days ago comparing interjections used for other-
initiated repair in various languages. All the languages they looked at hav=
e a=20
word consisting of a null, glottal stop, or glottal fricative onset followe=
d=20
by a low-to-mid front-to-central unrounded vowel with a questioning=20
intonation.

Lojban words do not begin with a glottal fricative (it's found only between=
=20
vowels), but some words begin with a glottal stop (which is not distinct fr=
om=20
null at the beginning of an utterance). Of the one-syllable words beginning=
=20
with a glottal stop, four are conjunctions, one (which is high) is the=20
sentence separator, and the remaining one (which fits the pattern) is the=
=20
hesitation word.

A glance at Wiktionary suggests that a majority of languages have a hesitat=
ion=20
word which fits a pattern: English "er" and "uh" (the latter sounds just li=
ke=20
Lojban "y"), French "euh" (not listed but it's one of my languages), Greek=
=20
"=CE=B5", Danish "=C3=B8h", etc. The pattern is different from the OIR word=
 ("euh" is=20
rounded, whereas "hein" isn't), but they overlap.

Our OIR words are "ki'a" and "ke'o". The second syllable of "ki'a" does fit=
 the=20
pattern for OIR words, but the fact that it has two syllables does not. I=
=20
suggest that "ki'a", when said by itself, should be stressed on the "a" wit=
h a=20
questioning intonation (whatever that is) so that it's closer to the patter=
n=20
for OIR words. "ki'anai" should be stressed on the first or third syllable,=
 and=20
"moki'a" and "maki'a" can be stressed however you want, as the listener=20
already knows when the "ki'a" starts that it's not a bare "ki'a".

Pierre
--=20
The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

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