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Re: [bpfk] camxes and syllabification in zi'evla



On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:26 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
Alex Burka, On 25/10/2014 20:12:
I don't see how you could replace all consideration of consonant clusters with CV + explicit buffer vowels. Wouldn't you lose the ability to specify which clusters are valid, which ones are valid initially, etc?

 You're quite right: these constraints on 'consonant clusters' cannot plausibly be phonological and must rather be morphophonological. The distribution of buffer vowels proves that phonological structure is essentially CV. While in principle, phonological constraints on Cs in /C%C/ sequences are not implausible, the particular constraints Lojban wants to impose are. Therefore, any constraints on 'clusters' are more plausibly morphophonological. Morphophonological rules can do whatever you like.

Can we talk about "morphophonological syllables"? If yes, then assume this discussion is basically about morphophonological syllables rather than phonological ones. We need to identify these (at least to some extent) in order to know how to break up a stream of phonemes into words. 

Of course the morphophonological rules could have been much simpler than what they are, that cannot be disputed.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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