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PEG Morphology Algorithm

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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:23:19PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> > > *** Sentence: muSTElaVIson 1
> >
> > camxes is allowing cmene without a preceding pause *or* {la},
> > which is especially insane if it's supposed to allow cmene with
> > la/lai/doi in them, which modification *requires* that there be
> > a pause before *all* cmene.
>
> We don't require a pause before doi/la/lai/la'i. If we did, there
> would be no point to the !doi-la-lai-la'i restriction. Both camxes
> and valfendi allow doi/la/lai/la'i when preceded by a consonant or
> followed by a vowel, that's all, because in those cases there is
> no ambiguity.
>
> I would vote to abolish the doi-la-lai-la'i restriction on cmene
> altogether, and always require pauses at both ends of cmene.

Umm, I thought that you were already doing this? Oh, I seem to have
misunderstood valfendi's -a option:

-a cmevla can contain {la'u}, {doie}, etc.

That's a seperate issue, isn't it?

> Then this sentence would not be problematic, it's just a cmene.

Right.

-Robin