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by eldin raigmore
09 Nov 2023 10:09
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282412

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...
by eldin raigmore
07 Nov 2023 14:49
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282412

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...
by eldin raigmore
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

Omzinesý wrote: 06 Nov 2023 17:27 This looks interesting!
I'm often skeptical with these alien projects but I'll read this through.
[+1]
It makes me want to revive my Treecat language.
I should think about cat sounds.
Talk to LinguistCat, maybe, for some additional ideas?
by eldin raigmore
06 Nov 2023 17:52
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282412

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”...
by eldin raigmore
06 Nov 2023 08:49
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282412

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...
by eldin raigmore
05 Nov 2023 12:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know
Replies: 70
Views: 24105

Re: Miscellaneous fun facts about your conlang to share and know

@Imralu :
In re Balog :
1. Wow!
2. What VapuantaDoi said!
by eldin raigmore
05 Nov 2023 06:36
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Replies: 116
Views: 112590

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...
by eldin raigmore
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.
by eldin raigmore
04 Nov 2023 19:24
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282412

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...
by eldin raigmore
01 Nov 2023 23:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Simple grammar idea
Replies: 8
Views: 9493

Re: Simple grammar idea

Creyeditor wrote: 30 Oct 2023 12:32 …. Eldin's TAG ….

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!
by eldin raigmore
01 Nov 2023 23:08
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Let's talk about xenoergonomics (ergonomics of non humanoids)
Replies: 9
Views: 6924

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-...
by eldin raigmore
01 Nov 2023 22:46
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347456

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...
by eldin raigmore
01 Nov 2023 22:35
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Let's talk about xenoergonomics (ergonomics of non humanoids)
Replies: 9
Views: 6924

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...
by eldin raigmore
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...
by eldin raigmore
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...
by eldin raigmore
29 Oct 2023 17:09
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155347

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?
by eldin raigmore
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...
by eldin raigmore
29 Oct 2023 15:54
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Are We As Mayflies? [Lonely Galaxy]
Replies: 13
Views: 18068

Re: Are We As Mayflies? [Lonely Galaxy]

lurker wrote: 28 Oct 2023 14:35
…. the yinrih naturally evolved a written language ….
Do you mean, their written language comes from an inborn capacity for writing?
Or at least as much of one as UG proponents (for instance) think humans’ spoken language comes from?
by eldin raigmore
26 Oct 2023 13:43
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server
Replies: 31
Views: 100338

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.
by eldin raigmore
26 Oct 2023 13:07
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server
Replies: 31
Views: 100338

Re: An Unofficial CBB Discord Server

@lurkjay : Thanks!