[Corpora-List] Is Esperanto an artificial language from the viewpoint of phonetics?

[Yorick Wilks]

Sorry, but I cant understand what youre getting at---Esperanto has  
word stocks from 3 or 4 other languages, agreed, But you then ask  
about its phonetics and say: "However, on the phonetic level  
Esperanto is in no way different from any natural language." But its  
phonetic components also come from the same set of languages, so its  
difference from its components may be the same for its phonetics and  
lexis?
If that is so, your quoted sentence above will apply at any level---- 
at each it's a language that is a mix-of-languages and a mix of  
languages may be, in every way, "in no way different from any natural  
language" whatever that means: there is even a word for it  
"macaronic". I am still puzzled by your emphasis on phonetics.
YW


On 8 Sep 2007, at 14:13, Juliana Tambovtseva wrote:

> Dear Corpora colleagues, We have been reading with great pleasure  
> some of the theoretical discussions on the Corpora net. We wonder  
> what do you think of Esperanto? Is it an artificial language from  
> the viewpoint of phonetics? Is it possible to compare Esperanto  
> with the natural languages? Some linguists may say it is not  
> possible to compare an artificial language with a natural language.  
> Let us consider if Esperanto is really an artificial language on  
> the phonetic level. It is artificial on the lexical and syntax  
> level, because different word stocks are mixed, different affixes  
> from different languages are taken and so on. However, on the  
> phonetic level Esperanto is in no way different from any natural  
> language. Thus in this respect it is quite a natural language. Its  
> speech sounds are the same as the speech sounds in the natural  
> languages. Thus, from the point of view of phonetics Esperanto is  
> the same sort of object as any other natural language. It has the  
> same phonetic features as a natural language. Esperanto's speech  
> sounds may be classified in the same way as the speech sounds of  
> any natural language. What is your opinion? We are looking forward  
> to hearing to both addresses, but first of all to yutamb at mail.ru  
> Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev and Juliana Tambovtseva
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