Zompist Bboard Again

OK, everyone, I need a second opinion: I had a general health checkup at my GP's office on Monday, and the result was apparently that I'm mostly in fine health, but seriously lack Vitamin D, presumably because I don't get out enough. So now my GP wants me to take Vitamin D supplements. Is that legi...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:55 pm I just had a look at xyzzyva, who sounds to me like he has a distinct /ə/. Here’s the spectogram:

How do you make these lovely spectograms?

So if you insist on [jən] you should also write [nəj]. I don't see how this logically follows. I (and presumably fuisiiuiju and bradrn) have a schwa (of non-insignificant duration) in [jən], and no schwa in [nj]. For one thing the [nj] isn't a syllable, it's a hetero- (or maybe ambi-) syllabic clus...

It's likely that some idiolects insert a schwa into the sequence /jn̩/ to "repair" a weird sonority sequence. And while /jɹ̩/ is also a weird sonority sequence, it is considerably less so, since the rhotic is fairly close to a semivowel in GenAm (from what I've heard) and at the very least...

And some more heinous ones: The not at all baroque description of 11088016140 's coda consonants as "N: a stop or nasal other than a stop; i.e. one of /m n̻/". I sure wish there was a word for something that was either a stop or a nasal but wasn't the first one. 16932796370 has nine plosiv...

(Although then again, I suppose Salishan and Berber languages have even weirder syllabic goings-on.) Salishan languages do seem to follow the sonority hierarchy, bizarrely enough. Nuxalk for instance only syllabifies fricatives if there's nothing more sonorous in the syllable (according to the aptl...

I finally got around to transcribing a few more of these sound changes (to Sangke, Wutung and Proto-Vanimo). But now I have some queries: *ɵ → e (listed in tables, but later noted that "*ʉ merg[es] with *ɵ, which splits depending on nasality") On p182 he specifies that ‘square brackets (“...

jal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:29 am Punctuated equilibrium in linguistics .

Dixon uses that term to describe Australian languages. In said instance he's a bit of a nutcase though (he basically doesn't believe in any classification of Australian languages whatsoever).

Not a specific word, but rather some phonemes. What specific articulation are your coronals? Maybe /r/ as well but that's barely coronal. I'd be interested in any languages, but primarily English. I've heard (IIRC) that the distribution between apical and laminal /s/ is random throughout dialects, b...

Those are some nice verbs. I don't really have anything else to say but they sure are nice.

Less weird Iau orthography: /i̝ i u ɪ ʊ, ɛ ɔ ã aɛ aɪ, ai ai̝ aʊ ɛi ɔɛ, ɔi ʊi ui aui aʊɪ/ ⟨ j i ʉ y ɯ, e o a æ ɐ, ɑ ɒ ɛ œ ø, ʊ ʏ ʍ ʌ ⟩ /bi̝ bi bu bɪ bʊ, bɛ bɔ bã baɛ baɪ, bai bai̝ baʊ bɛi bɔɛ, bɔi bʊi bui baui baʊɪ/ ⟨ b β ʙ ɓ ꞗ, ƃ ɱ m ᴍ ꬺ, w v ʋ ⱱ ⱴ, ỽ x χ ɜ þ ⟩ /ti̝ ti tu tɪ tʊ, tɛ tɔ tã taɛ taɪ, ta...

Enggano goes even further with /x/ [s~ç~x].

I see no barrier in my dialect at least to assigning codas to all lax (i.e. short) vowels. And then analyse long vowels as /Vɹ/ for obious reasons. And analyse diphthongs as Vj Vw. Boom! AusEng is Arrernte.

I'm new here but I'm interested in getting to interact this community more. I have an open question about conlangs but romanization in particular. Can less practical approaches to romanization such as <gn> instead of <ñ> or <ɲ> be justified if they contribute to phonaesthetics? Absolutely. You can ...

Before I go on to the next section, I'll give a brief outline of how I see the grammar panning out from here. It's fairly difficult to order since Mitsiefa doesn't have any morphology and has weird phrases – the "comment phrase" seems to be a single syntactic type but the "topic phras...

Has anyone put up a version of gleb's web interface that can take a seed as a parameter? How do you see a phonology of a language with a given seed? You can see the phonology of a given seed on the online version by appending ?r=[seed] to the URL. For example, here's a link to Darren's syllable fev...

Mad necro but Seed 15979149481 has these consonants: /p t k/ /s/ /m n/ /l/ And these vowels: /i u ɛ ɔ æ/ Nothing that impressive. But then we reach the syllable structure — behold: (C1)V(C2)(C3)(C4)(C5)(C6)(C7) C1: a consonant V: a vowel C2: a consonant C3: a bilabial stop or nasal; i.e. one of /m p...

Hmm… surely it should only give question marks if there’s another category declaration afterwards? I think you must be right. I guess I'm just too lazy to redefine all the categories at the same time. As am I, which is why categories … end adds to the existing categories rather than clearing them (...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:09 pm Hmm… surely it should only give question marks if there’s another category declaration afterwards?

I think you must be right. I guess I'm just too lazy to redefine all the categories at the same time.

While trying to implement some new features, I realised I’m confused by this statement: I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything. If those graphemes never get used for anything, then why do you n...