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on 4/30/02 5:39 PM, And Rosta at a-rosta@hidden.email wrote: > I don't think optional sa would work. Instead, change its function to > a hyphenator. Then contrast blu fawl with compound 'blu sa fawl', or > add new rules for forming short compounds, e.g. f > w: bluwawl. If we were going to do that, I'd consider nasalizing the first constituent. that would mean that it combines with the next morpheme. However, I still think 'sa' can often be omitted. I can certainly hear the difference between blue bird and bluebird in English. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/