Re: How are syllable boundaries determined


ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
mb wrote:
António Marques wrote:
...
Even outside of minimal pairs, length was a major player in historical
phonology (look for iambic shortening and Lachmann's law). And in fact,
when length was lost as such, the whole language fell apart and became
the very different romance. It was all the grammarians' fault for not
indicating length in writing!

Right. Whereas those who went to incredible lengths to mark quantity
and tone in excruciating detail, like the Alexandrians, managed to
torture schoolkids for 1,600-1,800 years after all length and pitch
distinctions were lost. Just to avoid being charged with that crime,
Western grammarians still continue to use all the funny signs.

Fascinating! Can I find a Latin Bible or The Aenid or JGC's "The
Conquest of Gaul" with the funny signs?

The Alexandrians didn't write Latin.

You certainly can find an Aeneid or Caesar with the full complement of
funny signs used in Latin (i.e., macrons) -- they're called "school
editions," and they probably also even have a Latin-English glossary in
the back, and moreover they distinguish i and j, u and v as vowel and
consonant respectively (as the ancients didn't).

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