Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0qQ96q-000023C; Tue, 19 Jul 94 09:57 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8568; Tue, 19 Jul 94 09:55:31 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 8564; Tue, 19 Jul 1994 09:55:30 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8298; Tue, 19 Jul 1994 08:54:39 +0200 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 02:53:14 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: lojban phonology X-To: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU X-cc: lojbabn@access.digex.net, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 918 Lines: 22 JI> According to the morphology rules, each V and CV syllable (also CVV but JI> more complicated) is a separate cmavo if it isn't the last syllable of JI> a brivla. Not actually correct, though I sense that your intent is correct. There are other ways to get a CV into a brivla without it being the final syllable. E.g. ckafybarja ; cka,fy,BAR,ja, which has 2 CV syllables I think though that you just worded the answer backwards - the use of stress in Lojban determines the structure of most polysyllabic words, which would otherwise break apart into smaller pieces in ambiguous ways. (Names, the other kind of polysyllabic word, are held together by their starting and ending delimiters.) Let me amend that first to be complete: THe use of stress and syllable structure (the existence of consonant clusters is important) in Lojban determines the structure of most polysyllabic words unambiguously ... lojbab