Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]

>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
>Mangiat sikayal:
>
>> I tend to see English syllabification as a sort of a nightmare. When I
>> started studying English in the Elementary School we were told to avoid
>> writing a word on two lines because of the problems engendered by
>> syllabification... so I've grown up without knowing how Englishmen actually
>> break up words. Italian syllabification, OTOH, is really simple.
>
>Actually, if you're just trying to hyphenate words properly, it's not too
>difficult.  The rules are:
>
>1. Don't leave fewer than 3 letters hanging before or after the hyphen
>2. Break words across obvious morphemic boundaries
>3. Otherwise, any VCV is broken V-CV
>4. Any VCCV --> VC-CV
>5. Any VCCCV --> VC-CCV
Huh.  When I learned it we also had a rule not to hyphenate if the fragment of
a word could be interpreted as a different word (especially since to someone
reading out loud they could end up starting out the wrong word entirely).

     *Muke!

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