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- Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 651128
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
[pʰoɹ pʰoɹ pʰoɹ pʰɔɑ] maybe [pʰɔə] I haven't really done an acoustic analysis of the vowel in "paw", so this is rough, but don't assume that it's nearly as strong as you would find in any of the Queens or Island dialects (which seems closer to [oə]; it is, at least, a bigger difference between start...
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:29 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/06)
So, upon further not-terribly-detailed analysis, it seems to be the case that !(abc) = { !abc a!bc ab!c } in which case, I may choose not to support the use of negation on groups !(...), at least not for a while. I have negated terminals working, and just need to attach a dead-state to get negated s...
- Sat Jan 18, 2014 1:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/06)
I think that interpreting !(abc) as ab!c is confusing. If I understand your terminology correctly, then this means: ... Why, for example, should "bbc" not be a match for the pattern !(abc)? !(abc) looks like it should mean "match any three input tokens together don't form the sequence abc". But tha...
- Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/06)
The latter; unlike other markers, ! is a prefix.Zju wrote:I find using ! as a negation symbol very intuitive.
Do you mean that ab!c will behave as !(abc) or that !(abc) will accept sequences of ab that aren't followed by c?In the case of (2), I'm fairly certain that !(abc) = ab!c
- Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/06)
I have very, very little experience working with this kind of software. Could you write an idiot/newb-proof guide/user manual for this SCA? Thanks. I'd definitely like to; the current one is pretty haphazard. What are the opinions of people as to what would be a useful structure? I'm thinking maybe...
- Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical distance
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1958
Re: Lexical distance
I saw this on my tumblr feed too. I suspect this is based on cognate sharing and retention.
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:49 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/06)
Bugfix Release: Download Here (2013.01.06)
Version with new features to follow in a few days, as well as improved documentation.
Version with new features to follow in a few days, as well as improved documentation.
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus Toolbox SCA
That's partly the same bug, and partly a new one, so thanks for finding that. I actually got"loxl", but the same code is responsible. I'll release a bug-fix tomorrow, and continue working on the negatives - I realized I was doing it in the wrong way and thought of a much easier way to do it, so that...
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemic initial /ð/ in English (and other Germanic)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5393
Re: Phonemic initial /ð/ in English (and other Germanic)
I did think at one point that the conditioning factor was that the words in question were unstressed proclitics, but now I'm not so sure: I don't think subject pronouns in Germanic can be analysed this way. And why only some function words: why doesn't it apply to prepositions like "through"? My na...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus Toolbox SCA
Also, it'd be nice if you supported curly brackets on the left side of the sound change. Currently it doesn't throw an error, but the results are pretty weird and seemingly random. Yeah, I think right now it's going to interpret them as literals. I might add this functionality, since it's basically...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus Toolbox SCA
This was a bug in the initial release that was fixed, but I haven't gotten around to releasing the fixed version. I designed the rule application to avoid loops by moving a pointer along the word - when a rule is applied, it was supposed to jump ahead so that, after "aqa" is changed to "aqna", the ...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus Toolbox SCA
also for some reason the simple rule q > qn causes the program to enter in an endless loop or something This was a bug in the initial release that was fixed, but I haven't gotten around to releasing the fixed version. I designed the rule application to avoid loops by moving a pointer along the word...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus Toolbox SCA
Much thanks for this useful tool! There is only one thing which I don't know how to do - how to break up one word in two? The reason I want to that is to mark the word class that arises from segment loss, e.g. lorem → lor N, ipsum → ips N, but lore → lor C, ipsu → ips C, where C and N are genders. ...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:51 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 205823
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
This makes me want to cryWeepingElf wrote:Arnaud wrote:Hittite k is represented by h, as you previously agreed.
Nakh and Hurrian H1s- results in initial affricate ts-
Everything's in its place.
HilariousBoth have managed to get banned from Nostratic-L, by the way.
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 453659
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I was reading a description online of Proto-Germanic by Lehmann "holders of the glottalic theory face the problem of accounting for a glottalized labio-velar." What do yous think of this? Is this an appropriate argument against the new kids on the block? I don't see why this is that much of a probl...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642364
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
That was incredibly good.Nortaneous wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0Aurora Rossa wrote:I don't get it. How does America have six billion people?
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 11:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 453659
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Try it now, I may have posted the wrong URL. Otherwise, yeah you might need a gmail account, but I think I posted the wrong link, i.e. I posted the link to my folder, not the link to the public share.WeepingElf wrote:All I get is a login promptMorrígan wrote:Some Books
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:59 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642364
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Torco wrote:Xephyr wrote:Guys. Quote Thread.
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 453659
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I was reading a description online of Proto-Germanic by Lehmann "holders of the glottalic theory face the problem of accounting for a glottalized labio-velar." What do yous think of this? Is this an appropriate argument against the new kids on the block? I don't see why this is that much of a probl...
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 453659
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I really need to make sure that I have some sort of Definitive Collection, since I keep discovering that my files are not all in one place. Some Books Like Dewrad, I first encountered Beekes, and while it was definitely overwhelming, I still found it more informative than Szemerényi. It's good, thou...
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 453659
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Having started to browse the dead-tree copy of NIL that was on my gift heap this year, I've written up some thoughts on PIE *bhag- "share" on my blog . Thought it might interest some of you. Cool read. I say that I've read others positing that bog- in Slavic is a loan from Indo-Iranian. I'm not sur...
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haedus SCA - Bugfix (01/24)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22088
Re: Haedus Toolbox SCA
You implemented your regular expressions using state machines then? When I wrote HaSC, my implementation of regular expressions was basically via a simple recursive function that walked through a syntax tree of the regular expression matching as it went. The theoretical worst case performance of th...
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 11:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The North Caucasic Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3582
Re: The North Caucasic Thread
I found the newer grammar for Batsbi that I was looking for.
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ejective lateral affricates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1339
Re: Ejective lateral affricates
As in Khwarshi, those East Caucasian languages which have ejective lateral affricates tend to have pulmonic lateral affricates affricates as well. This definitely seen in many (or most) of the Avar-Andi languages, a Tsezic languages. It's interesting that Khwarshi does have the gap in it's labialize...
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Videogame Thread
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15591
Re: The Videogame Thread
I've been working through Mass Effect, in lieu of playing through Dragon Age 2 the squillionth time (I absolutely love that game to teeny tiny bits, for most of the reasons people hate it). I also seem to be back to playing Plants vs Zombies a lot. I've yet to play Dragon Age, though I'll probably ...