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- Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512657
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
I was gonna say ogonek. I like that, especially considering you got the macrons too.
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 171380
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Inspiring. Props for the effort.
- Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Maybe you could have something where stressed vowels can be either long or short, and short stressed vowels also merge as /ə/.
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
You don't need to justify it.Arzena wrote:How might I justify a sound change of /ɒ/ to [ɛ] in the environment R_ ?
R = /r ɾ w/
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English /r/
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8785
Re: English /r/
well... I tried both links and got a message that the file could not be found or something like that.
- Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English /r/
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8785
English /r/
I don't think this has been discussed in depth recently. Anyway, the English /r/ is kinda weird. It's usually referred to as an alveolar approximant (except I think in Scotland /r/ can be realized as a flap most of the time?), but there's other stuff going on with it that varies a lot. Catford says ...
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I wonder how stable /s ʃ ʂ ɕ/ would be
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18494
Re: How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?
ever?Umega wrote:YngNghymru wrote:I'll give you a hint: /ʍ/
i don't say it loud enough or emphatic enough on that syllable to produce a voiced sound
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18494
Re: How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?
[w@M\@w@4@j@]
i speak lazy american
sometimes the [@4@] is even squashed to [@] when i feel like eating more potato chips
i speak lazy american
sometimes the [@4@] is even squashed to [@] when i feel like eating more potato chips
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How about glottal stop + nasal sequences?
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
maybe /s/ is phonetically velarized, although then you'd have to justify that dunno how retarded this is, but maybe there could've been an earlier /s_d s/ contrast, and the (post)alveolar /s/ velarised to sharpen the contrast. then the /s_d/ could go a few different routes. I'd say it depends on th...
- Wed May 18, 2011 10:07 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 229008
Re: Confusing headlines
a victim of dog bites?
- Tue May 17, 2011 2:35 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Transitive vs. Intransitive
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9872
Re: Transitive vs. Intransitive
transexualitive
- Tue May 17, 2011 5:59 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 209282
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
If anyone gives a "fucsh", the real origin of the word (actually an acronym) lies with the Inquisition and later, New World persecutions of "different" people. The acronym F.U.C.K was used in records of torture and execution to mean For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. So, there ya have it. My history te...
- Tue May 10, 2011 6:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334747
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334747
Re: Creativity of the day
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5897/managersonly1.jpg http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/218/managersonly2.jpg http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/9391/managersonly3.jpg couldn't fit the whole thing in my scanner, so it's pretty big. this makes it harder to get the full picture but it would stret...
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I've got a vowel shift, but in order to preserve the inventory I want, the order needs to be kinda weird. The starting inventory is /a e i o u a: e: i: o: u:/, with this vowel shift: i: u: > ai au e o > { a e: o: > i u i u > e o a: a > a @ to end up with /a { e i o u @ ai au/. The order of changes s...
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
maybe you could do:
a > @ when in a final syllable
s > j / _#
x > w / _#
@j > i
@w > u
a > @ when in a final syllable
s > j / _#
x > w / _#
@j > i
@w > u
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:48 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Arve
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5112
Re: Arve
I don't have time to say anything more in depth right now, but this is kickass.
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I thought of a way I could justify it: an earlier form of the language had 2 tones: high and low. There was a sort of tone harmony, with basically the same rules I described. stress fell on the first high tone syllable, and EXCEPT FOR this stressed syllable, adjacent vowels must match in tone. high ...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:07 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
dude, that definitely works.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631502
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Stress falls on the first syllable with a long vowel, but I have this other rule: on either side of the stressed syllable, vowels must match in length. In other words: the syllable after the stress must have a short vowel, unless the stress is word-initial. No, I mean you can have short vowels or l...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:06 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334747
Re: Creativity of the day
Interesting concreature. Why is it asymmetrical, though? Thanks. It's not supposed to be well-thought out or anything, i just drew it. It's asymmetrical because I'm not that great at drawing. This thing is supposed to be the cover of an album for my noise project. I'm gonna add some color and a bac...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:51 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334747
- Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
- Replies: 117
- Views: 25170
Re: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
Has anyone ever considered a spelling reform that marks stress?