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On Monday 27 December 2004 10:58, John E Clifford wrote:
> The traditional claim that a Lojban speech steam
> can be uniquely partitioned into Lojban words
> seems to be in trouble. the difficulties seem to
> center on the "foreign" parts of the language,
> cmevla and fuhivla — and lujvo insofar as they
> impinge on the latter (though these last
> questions seem to be getting solutions). Fuhivla
> have always been a bit problematic as have cmene
> in their relation both to their native languages
> and to Lojban and various devices have come along
> to deal with these problems, mainly restricted --
> and often very complex — phonological patterns
> and — for cmene at least — obligatory pauses.
> These last have seemed impractical in actual
> speech — people forget to make them and, when
> they do, others fail to notice them as distinct
> from nonsignificant pauses.

The test phrases include stressed and unstressed cmavo preceding brivla
without a pause. Stressing a cmavo before a brivla without a pause is likely
to result in a different word division, even if the brivla is a lujvo:
/lojboJBEna/ is {lo jbojbena}, while /LOjboJBEna/ is {lojbo jbena}. That
camxes lexes /jAIckAnkua/ differently than valfendi isn't a big problem. I'm
more concerned about /LIXtenctain/, which camxes splits as {lixte nctain}.

phma
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