PEG Morphology Algorithm
> 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}.
Well, the name problem is one thing I
particularly aimed to deal with. I am not sure
that this proposal helps for stress problem,
which like pauses require a kind of control over
the speech stream that most of us lack a lot of
the time. xorxes' suggestion to always use
hephens (well, his is not quite that but...)
goes some way to resolving that however: it works
in the given case at least.