| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar |
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| Stop | p b | t d | c j | k g |
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| Fricative | f v | s z | sh zh | x gh |
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| Nasal | m | n | nh | q |
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| Liquid | | l | r | |
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| | Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar |
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| | p b | t d | c J\ | k g |
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| | f v | s z | S Z | x G |
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| | m | n | J | N |
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| | | l | r | |
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I.3 Remarks
- Phones are organized into a sonority hierarchy as follows (in order of decreasing sonority):
- i, y, u, e, w, o, a
- l, r, n, m, nh, q
- s, sh, x, f, z, zh, gh, v
- b, d, j, g
- p, t, c, k
- A syllable consists of a peak of sonority. That is, the onset of a syllable consists of a
strictly increasing in sonority sequence of segments; the nucleus is any vowel; and, the coda is
a strictly decreasing sequence of segments. The most typical syllable pattern, though is CCVC.
In parsing a word into syllables, phones are joined into onsets, where possible, over codas.
For example, kblam.tshnixb.pdflunsg is a perfectly fine word consisting of three syllables.
- Stress is always on the first syllable.
II. Nominals
A nominal is an element that takes no arguments. Typical examples are nouns and interjections.
| Pronouns |
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| Singular | Plural | Honorific |
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| 1st | bnos | bnif | tmalfk |
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| 2nd | dlos | dlif | kmalfk |
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| 3rd | gzws | gif | kmalfk |
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III. Operators
All operators take a fixed number of arguments. ...
IV. Examples
- plyx cmyx bzi kduv bnos That dog bit me.
(analyzed as: ((plyx cmyx) (bzi kduv) bnos))
V. Sample Lexicon
Operators
- cmyk [S O]
- bite ('S bites O')
- bzi [N]
- definite/known ('the N')
- plyx [V]
- semelfactive/completed ('did V'/'V-ed')
Nominals
- kduv
- dog
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