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- 09 Nov 2023 10:09
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 281995
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I was specifically thinking about a series of experiments by van Zanten and Goedemans (reported a.o. here: https://www.academia.edu/download/81343807/01e4fcd48e852b051f2cbc168a42dd03ebc8.pdf ) which seems to suggest that Standard Indonesian as spoken by Javanese native speakers has phrasal stress b...
- 07 Nov 2023 14:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 281995
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
…. @Eldin, @qwed: I think I have seen good arguments that some languages have only phrasal prominence (as diagnosed by pitch and duration cues) which is not aligned to any particular position inside a word. Some of these languages (e.g. some varieties of Standard Indonesian) also do not show any in...
- 06 Nov 2023 18:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 57
- Views: 22328
Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
Talk to LinguistCat, maybe, for some additional ideas?It makes me want to revive my Treecat language.
I should think about cat sounds.
- 06 Nov 2023 17:52
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 281995
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think most people/books I know call /i/ advanced or non-retracted and /ɪ/ retracted or non-advanced. …. But they’re not talking about the Tongue- ROOT . They’re talking about the main body of the part of the tongue that is in the mouth. /i/ is Front and /ɪ/ is Near-Front. The “root of the tongue”...
- 06 Nov 2023 08:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 281995
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So, is RTR the same thing as - ATR? Yes? I’m afraid the answers are really “maybe” and “sometimes” and “it depends”. In vowels, Advanced Tongue Root is contrasted with Relaxed Tongue Root. (One can’t articulate a vowel with a Retracted Tongue Root.) In consonants, Retracted Tongue Root is contraste...
- 05 Nov 2023 12:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
- Replies: 70
- Views: 24098
Re: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
@Imralu :
In re Balog :
1. Wow!
2. What VapuantaDoi said!
In re Balog :
1. Wow!
2. What VapuantaDoi said!
- 05 Nov 2023 06:36
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
- Replies: 116
- Views: 112473
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Piphilology. I learned it from Sandi Toksvig’s QI. So, maybe it’s English? It refers to the habit or custom or hobby of making up word-strings as mnemonics for the decimal expansion of the dimensionless constant pi, which is the ratio of a Euclidean circle’s circumference to its diameter. (Such a mn...
- 04 Nov 2023 23:18
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Questionnaire to study the public opinion on the axiological picture of the world of English speakers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8989
Re: Questionnaire to study the public opinion on the axiological picture of the world of English speakers
I found the questions difficult to interpret; and also, uninteresting.
I don’t see how or why this information would benefit any Ukrainians people or any Ukrainian people.
So I won’t answer it.
I don’t see how or why this information would benefit any Ukrainians people or any Ukrainian people.
So I won’t answer it.
- 04 Nov 2023 19:24
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1106
- Views: 281995
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How does stress-ogenesis work? Does it work like tonogenesis or can stress just spontaneously appear in languages without word stress? IM(H?)O: I don’t believe there are any natural languages, with two-or-more-syllable words, totally without ANY primary stress (on syllables in words), AND also tota...
- 01 Nov 2023 23:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Simple grammar idea
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9493
Re: Simple grammar idea
None of the various forms of Tree-Adjoining Grammar are “mine”!
I haven’t been responsible for the innovations in any of them!
I wish I were that good and that productive a linguist; but I’m just not!
….
Thanks for your faith in me, though, Creyeditor!
- 01 Nov 2023 23:08
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Let's talk about xenoergonomics (ergonomics of non humanoids)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6923
Re: Let's talk about xenoergonomics (ergonomics of non humanoids)
What makes them "triphibious", ? The members of each species in that phylum go through three* life-phases. For instance; aquatic, then land-dwelling, then flying. Some may have a burrowing phase in place of one of those. *Like amphibians go through two phases, an aquatic one, then a land-...
- 01 Nov 2023 22:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347112
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm assuming that is an estimate based on our world with 8 billion people and a lot of mobility, mass media and mostly free communication all across the world, and not meant to be a generally applicable number to languages in any setting. …. Yes; I got my “about 1 million to about 3.5 million” esti...
- 01 Nov 2023 22:35
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Let's talk about xenoergonomics (ergonomics of non humanoids)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6923
Re: Let's talk about xenoergonomics (ergonomics of non humanoids)
I have my “space centipedes”, but I haven’t given enough thought to their furniture or houses or clothes(?) or tools etc. I’ve given thought to their overall shape and their musculature and to the anatomy of their limbs and eyes. They are in a phylum of “triphibious” animals. And they’re the best me...
- 01 Nov 2023 01:45
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Curious but serious pronounciation problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14426
Re: Curious but serious pronounciation problem
That's not a "serious pronunciation problem" until you learn a language that has a phonemic contrast between them and I am not aware of there being any. UPSID doesn’t know of any. 22 languages in its sample have a voiced uvular fricative. Only 4 have a voiced uvular trill: namely BATAK, F...
- 29 Oct 2023 17:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: It is possible to nasalize every vowel?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18135
Re: It is possible to nasalize every vowel?
In languages that do not make a distinction between nasalized vowels and oral-only vowels, frequently every vowel next to a nasal consonant is nasalized (pronounced as its nasal allophone). …. Citation needed, I suppose! …. Maybe for some languages that applies only to vowels immediately followed by...
- 29 Oct 2023 17:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155182
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
@ Omzinesý :
Shouldn’t some of your latest post be continued on the
Random Ideas: Morphosyntax
https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=712
topic?
Shouldn’t some of your latest post be continued on the
Random Ideas: Morphosyntax
https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=712
topic?
- 29 Oct 2023 17:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Simple grammar idea
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9493
Re: Simple grammar idea
@imcute : Is your idea similar to any of Tree-Adjoining Grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-adjoining_grammar Multi-Component TAG https://aclanthology.org/W90-0204/ Lexicalized TAG https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/34823931/lexicalized-tree-adjoining-grammars-ltag-ad-teachinginfor und so...
- 29 Oct 2023 15:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Are We As Mayflies? [Lonely Galaxy]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18068
- 26 Oct 2023 13:43
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server
- Replies: 31
- Views: 100278
Re: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server
@lurkjay :
I can’t request friendship from anybody, including those you listed as definitely on the discord.
I get “hmm, didn’t work. Check that the username is correct.”.
No matter who I try to befriend.
I can’t request friendship from anybody, including those you listed as definitely on the discord.
I get “hmm, didn’t work. Check that the username is correct.”.
No matter who I try to befriend.
- 26 Oct 2023 13:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server
- Replies: 31
- Views: 100278
Re: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server
@lurkjay : Thanks!