... <Snip> ... What's the 'head' of a syllable? It seems to me that most 'moraic' systems are really writing (onset + nucleus) + coda, but I'm not aware of a...
... Presumably he's reusing the "head" and "margin" terminology of phonology and syntax and refers to the vocalic portion. ... Check out Pahawh Hmong, on which...
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:44:54 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... I guess "unvoiced" is not formal, then; that's a risk an amateur Qalamite takes, creating a...
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:45:38 -0400, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...> ... It's looking as though the apparent attractiveness and distinctiveness of the word...
... Pahawh Hmong is just an alphabet - it has eleven oral vowels and two nasal vowels. All the Hmong codas are implicit in the nucleus! Bopomofo is a valid...
Just came across this -- it seems to be a synonym for CamelCase, one of the more witty of recent neologisms. InterCap/CamelCase: The form of a word with an...
... (onset + ... nucleus'. ... phonetic ... two ... Yes, but I have often seen Pahaw Hmong analysed as onset and rime, as well as bomofo. This also relates to...
... phonology ... mora, ... of ... teaching ... (onset + ... I like this analysis but I would guess that initial + nucleus from coda is still at the basically...
... one of ... letter ... Thanks Nicholas. I love that! Somehow CamelCase seems like a term it would be difficult to forget. InterCap sounds more technical but...
... No, it is not an alphabet. It is a sort of reverse abugida. (Burmese is what it's most like, but Smalley insisted the inventor could only have known Thai...
... I have recently just been thinking in terms of 'compositional syllabic notation' not to discount other terms - just to have something handy and simple for...
... It has long been referred to as BiCapitalization, I believe (see http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html). There is also the related...
... Here it is, Copy/Pasted from a Word document, so if there are any diacritics or special characters, they'll go away. Writing systems: A linguistic...
... You have me confused on two counts. If it's an abugida, what's the implicit vowel? Secondly, I thought that if an abugida ceased to have an implicit vowel...
... IIRC each vowel letter has an implicit consonant, which is replaced by a consonant letter placed beside it. ... What is "such systems"? Lao is an alphabet....
... Well, perhaps if it hadn't been 1 am and I'd felt like climbing two flights of stairs and back again, I might have done; but you'd obviously just looked it...
... vowels and two ... nucleus! ... what's the ... replaced by a ... /k/.' ... Your sentence was ambiguous (a common implicit consonant, or potentially a...
... Aha! By E.S.R., the philosopher of the Open source movement. Fine document, and entertaining reading, as well. New to me; thanks. (Anyone for "BiC12n"? I...
... (?) ... for "ğ", ... The "G" is a pretty standard ASCIIfied encoding of the sound of "ğ" before it evanesced. "I" for "ı" is less standard - X-SAMPA ...
... (Blackwell ... 2005. ... 23464-0 ... Thank you very much for this. It sounds like it is the first full treatment of abjad and abugida in a major textbook....
... http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html). ... (http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/studlycaps.html). ... I'm not sure if I or anyone else...
... beside ... Slightly off topic, but this subject of the differing typology of Thai and Lao reminded me of a comment on Amazon about the change in Lao...
... Did I mention I met David Olson last month when he was here to participate in an NYU seminar? A very nice Canadian (which is to say, he refused to dispute...
... say, he ... contradicted ... about ... Let's just say he has lost interest in writing systems. I attended a graduate seminar with him for a while related...
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:21:23 -0400, Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...> ... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CamelCase#Early_Usenet_Sightings> ... That's...
... Of ... If you use Word on Windows with Unicode-conformant fonts such as those included with those software titles, then this problem doesn't occur. Peter...
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:49:24 -0400, Peter Constable ... It would be nice to have equivalent advice for Mac owners, both OS X and pre-OS X. Of course (afaik!),...
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