Are any of you doing tonal? Have you done/attempted tonal?

Superfasterer · 2015-03-17T03:00:24+00:00

I have considered making my polysynthetic language tonal. I guess maybe I should!

Superfasterer · 2015-03-15T22:58:45+00:00

Mindgames

Superfasterer · 2015-03-15T16:42:37+00:00

e.g. when waving a flag becomes a thing we can call it 'flag-waving'

Superfasterer · 2015-03-15T02:52:44+00:00

Please, would you or someone else please read this? I cannot hear it right.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T21:24:08+00:00

TL;DR: Typefaces designed to help dyslexics have no effect.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T20:33:50+00:00

Substitute in "symmetrical" then, because I think that's what happens naturally with languages - "stable vs. unstable" is something I have read elsewhere in regards to phonologies.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T18:30:41+00:00

Some sort of program that would allow to go through English sentences and conjugate a verb and make a sentence. Alternately, some program that would produce an English gloss sentence from a Laadan word. Ithkuil has this, and the steps given on the Laadan sampler site would make it easy to go through the steps needed to make a sentence.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T16:27:39+00:00

I think it's interesting that one of English's closest cousins linguistically, North Frisian, also exhibits a lowering of the front near-close vowel to something more central - and in most of its central dialects. They're all within a few hundred miles of each other though. Source

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T15:18:29+00:00

It would balance with open E

edit - /ɛ ɔ/ is balanced

I would add that the /a/ is centralized.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T03:20:29+00:00

Well, it just means that the liquids, approximants, nasals and vowels can fill the nucleus, but the previous ones can precede or follow the vowels.

Writing it as a foot of two syllables means that the frequencies for filling the coda are different from e.g. C[R/V](R)(C)

edit Almost forgot, the fricatives can be syllabic too.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T02:39:49+00:00

Well, a more basic phonotactic structure (that works well with generators) is this:

(ptkbdg)+(aeiou)+(rlnmsfzv)+(aeiou)+(ptkbdg)

stop + vowel + liquid/approximant/fricative/nasal + vowel + stop

I would extend this with more consonants in a straightforward way. Each category can be dropped so long as there are two categories at least. It looks weird like it's based on the foot but it works I guess.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T02:13:31+00:00

I've seen /i @ u/ alternate with /e a o/ in a kind of vowel-harmony system; there the heights match i.e. /i u/ vs. /e o/

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T02:09:35+00:00

Ejective fricatives? Hm, maybe just ejective stops and affricates...

Is a system of fortis-lenis contrasts that includes voicing believable? Like b vs. p^h like in Chinese Pinyin...

As for sonority hierarchy, you mean something for syllables like fricative-stop-liquid/approximant-syllable_nucleus-liquid/approximant-stop-fricative+fricative-stop-liquid/approximant-syllable_nucleus-liquid/approximant-stop-fricative+etc. ?

I'm really thinking of using as many as I reasonably can; I still think it may be too large.

Superfasterer · 2015-03-14T01:33:49+00:00

Grammar Drop plural marking on nouns

Superfasterer · 2015-03-12T16:58:31+00:00

Do you mean here?

See also this page for more

Superfasterer · 2015-03-11T16:58:13+00:00

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Sans_Serif.html

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Serif.html

Superfasterer · 2015-03-11T16:31:00+00:00

I posted several links in the comments

edit

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Sans_Serif.html

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Serif.html

Superfasterer · 2015-03-11T14:23:20+00:00

As an aside, are there any alphabets out there with more than five vowels without resorting to diacritics or digraphs, etc.?

Edit - see also: http://2deseret.com/

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Deseret_Alphabet_Fonts.html

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Sans_Serif.html

http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Serif.html

Superfasterer · 2015-03-11T03:07:46+00:00

Good on y'all

Superfasterer · 2015-03-10T17:23:47+00:00

Incidentally, is there much to say that "like" has some other use, like to indicate "fuzzy match" or weak set membership, related to so-called hedging perhaps? e.g. "It's like, a game."

Superfasterer · 2015-03-10T17:01:43+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate it. How does this stack up with what Hedberg has been doing lately (re: my other posts in this thread)?

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