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syllabification rules



In a message dated 2004-05-02 5:21:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lojbab writes:


I believe we specified rules back in the original morphology paper (which
predates Lojban, being a modified version of a paper about TLI Loglan),


notebook 3 "the present state of the loglan language" pp. 23-24:  
"1.15  The Pair-from-the-Left Rule:  The default rule for grouping a written string of vowels into pairs is to start pairing them from the left and to restart the pairing process at any marked pause or syllable-break encountered.  Once this is done we have to examine the pairs so made to see whether they are obligatory monosyllables, obligatory disyllables, or optional disyllables."  then he gives the example [aiuiaoea] and resolves it into syllables as (igh-wee-ow-EIGH-aa).
if there aren't any lojban rules, this could be a starting point, rather than start from scratch.  
stevo