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Lojban's insistence on self-segmenting morphophonology entails a few places in which pauses are mandatory. The pauses <u>may</u> be written with a period (see [[denpa bu]]), but the writing of the period is <u>not</u> mandatory, even when the pause is. Note that pause does not equal glottal stop: a glottal stop is considered an instance of pause, but not all pauses have glottal stops. | |||
Lojban's insistence on self-segmenting morphophonology entails a few places in which pauses are mandatory. The pauses | |||
Here are the places where a pause is required: | Here are the places where a pause is required: | ||
# Before all words starting with a vowel. | # Before all words starting with a vowel. | ||
# After all cmene (words ending in a consonant). | # After all cmene (words ending in a consonant). | ||
# Before all cmene <u>unless</u> preceded by '''la/lai/doi''' (a particular instance would be after COI words) | |||
# Before all cmene | # After all words ending in '''-y''' (lerfu words) <u>unless</u> followed by another lerfu word (also ending in '''-y'''). (note that this combines with the first rule to require '''.y.''' and '''.y'y.''' to have pauses on both sides... unless followed by a lerfu word, I suppose.) | ||
# After the opening delimiter word, and before the close delimiter word, of '''la'o'''/'''zoi''' quotes. | |||
# After all words ending in ''-y'' (lerfu words) | # After <u>stressed</u> cmavo, when followed by a brivla. (stress in cmavo is normally free, but cmavo in front of brivla are not to be stressed, unless there is a pause, or else we can't divide the words right) | ||
#* The pause is not required when the brivla begins with a stressed syllable. If it is longer, it may be. '''LEselDENpa''' doesn't need a pause but '''LE.kraTAIgo''' does. | |||
# After the opening delimiter word, and before the close delimiter word, of la'o/zoi quotes. | #**Is that it? ''--mi'e [[User:Mark Shoulson|.mark.]]'' | ||
#***By "required", do you mean "needed in all situations" or "required by rule"? If the former, then item 4 on lerfu words is not necessarily true ('''cy''' at the beginning of utterance or with enough cmavo around it should be fine). If the latter, then the subcomment under 6 about LEselDENpa is out of order since the rule says pause is necessary anyway. -- ''mi'e [[Nora LeChevalier|noras.]]'' | |||
# After | |||
Is that it? ''--mi'e [[User:Mark Shoulson|.mark.]]'' | |||
By "required", do you mean "needed in all situations" or "required by rule"? If the former, then item 4 on lerfu words is not necessarily true (cy at the beginning of utterance or with enough cmavo around it should be fine). If the latter, then the subcomment under 6 about LEselDENpa is out of order since the rule says pause is necessary anyway. -- ''mi'e [[ |
Latest revision as of 17:16, 16 August 2019
Lojban's insistence on self-segmenting morphophonology entails a few places in which pauses are mandatory. The pauses may be written with a period (see denpa bu), but the writing of the period is not mandatory, even when the pause is. Note that pause does not equal glottal stop: a glottal stop is considered an instance of pause, but not all pauses have glottal stops.
Here are the places where a pause is required:
- Before all words starting with a vowel.
- After all cmene (words ending in a consonant).
- Before all cmene unless preceded by la/lai/doi (a particular instance would be after COI words)
- After all words ending in -y (lerfu words) unless followed by another lerfu word (also ending in -y). (note that this combines with the first rule to require .y. and .y'y. to have pauses on both sides... unless followed by a lerfu word, I suppose.)
- After the opening delimiter word, and before the close delimiter word, of la'o/zoi quotes.
- After stressed cmavo, when followed by a brivla. (stress in cmavo is normally free, but cmavo in front of brivla are not to be stressed, unless there is a pause, or else we can't divide the words right)
- The pause is not required when the brivla begins with a stressed syllable. If it is longer, it may be. LEselDENpa doesn't need a pause but LE.kraTAIgo does.
- Is that it? --mi'e .mark.
- By "required", do you mean "needed in all situations" or "required by rule"? If the former, then item 4 on lerfu words is not necessarily true (cy at the beginning of utterance or with enough cmavo around it should be fine). If the latter, then the subcomment under 6 about LEselDENpa is out of order since the rule says pause is necessary anyway. -- mi'e noras.
- Is that it? --mi'e .mark.
- The pause is not required when the brivla begins with a stressed syllable. If it is longer, it may be. LEselDENpa doesn't need a pause but LE.kraTAIgo does.