PEG Morphology Algorithm
Jorge Llamb��)B�as scripsit:
> Hmmm... This is arguable both ways, because names are
> not supposed to be allowed without an initial pause
> unless they follow doi/la/lai/la'i. We'd have to decide
> whether the stress-syllable rule for brivla or the
> rule for cmene has priority. (I go with left-to-right
> priority.)
The traditional understanding (as in the 1988 morphology) is that
the cmene rule has absolute priority: a cmene is a maximal string
of letters ending with consonant+pause and not containing la, lai,
or doi (unless preceded by a consonant).
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