Re: Unilang: the Prosodics
| From: | Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 19, 2001, 15:15 |
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:01:41 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>Phonemic stress in Unilang would be problematic
>for French speakers. Still, it's more because of their laziness when it
comes to
>learning another language than because of the inherent difficulty of that
>language.
Bien sur :) This is why I'm more willing to accept some features that "may
cause difficulty", if they're useful; because half of them would only cause
initial difficulty to the lazy student, not really perpetual difficulty to
the ardent one. Phonemic accent is one such example, as I see it; it might
be weird in the first class, but hardly for long.
Óskar