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Leonardo Castro, On 20/08/2012 20:25:
I imagine that the situations where someone needs a completely unambiguous syntax are situations where someone would be careful enough to justify the use of open-parenthesis and close-parenthesis particles instead.
There are better methods -- more natural and more economical and less brain taxing -- than parenthesis particles. Using tone might be one, if it could be done by means of an incremental parse. (I haven't tried to work out if the Fink--Miller scheme could be parsed incrementally.)
I doubt a typical human been can sound natural saying very complex sentences, no matter how concise the ending particles are.
But human beings do often spontaneously speak and write and hear and read complex sentences. --And.