Re: [Sugar-devel] Phonology (was Re: Fwd: Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.)

2009-03-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: :-) I'm no linguist, but we speak 3 languages in the house and I have been fascinated to observe that my kids seem to borrow phonemes between languages. I met somebody at a party once who said that has been documented in

[Sugar-devel] Phonology (was Re: Fwd: Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.)

2009-03-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Satya, I seem to remember reading that most of the world's languages draw from a pool of only 50-60 phonemes. This turns out not to be the case. Individual languages commonly have that many. English by itself has