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[lojban] Re: The phonotactics of cmevla



On Friday 23 November 2007 11:10, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> In Lojban, normal syllables end in a vowel or in a single consonant.
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>
> What I have done in the current version of the PEG morphology is to
> allow any string of phonemes for names in general (maintaining pairwise
> acceptability), but I also created a subclass of names "jbocme" for
> properly Lojbanic names, which allows only those names that consist
> purely of normal Lojban syllables. I think this is could be an acceptable
> solution so that the parser doesn't barf on not quite Lojbanic names but
> they are flagged as being not quite Lojbanic, thereby giving fully
> Lojbanized names a slightly higher status.

I think that this is a good idea, as my previous idea of allowing the last 
syllable to have an extra onset at the end, and the first syllable to 
optionally have a coda at the beginning, was a bit ugly. However I 
consider "-rk" and "-nk" to be valid codas, or more generally, any syllabic 
consonant followed by another consonant that doesn't violate the adjacent 
consonant rules. Using that rule, {mark} is a jbocme but {marks} isn't.

This, however, would demote cmevla formed by deleting the last vowel of a 
gismu to not-quite-Lojbanic status if they end in two non-syllabic 
consonants, such as {resp}. How about allowing one extra consonant at the 
end?

Pierre


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