History: When are pauses mandatory

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Lojban's insistence on self-segmenting morphophonology entails a few places in which pauses are mandatory. The pauses ''may'' be written with a period (see ((denpa bu|.))), but the writing of the period is ''not'' mandatory, even when the pause is. Note that pause does not equal glottal stop: a glottal stop is considered an instance of pause, but not all pauses have glottal stops. Here are the places where a pause is required: # Before all words starting with a vowel. # After all cmene (words ending in a consonant). # Before all cmene __unless__ preceded by ''la/lai/doi'' (a particular instance would be after COI words) # After all words ending in ''-y'' (lerfu words) __unless__ followed by another lerfu word (also ending in ''-y''). (note that this combines with the first rule to require ''.y.'' and ''.y'y.'' to have pauses on both sides... unless followed by a lerfu word, I suppose.) # After the opening delimiter word, and before the close delimiter word, of la'o/zoi quotes. # After __stressed__ cmavo, when followed by a brivla. (stress in cmavo is normally free, but cmavo in front of brivla are not to be stressed, unless there is a pause, or else we can't divide the words right) ** The pause is not required when the brivla begins with a stressed syllable. If it is longer, it may be. {LEselDENpa} doesn't need a pause but {LE.kraTAIgo} does. Is that it? ''--mi'e ((Mark Shoulson|mark.))'' By "required", do you mean "needed in all situations" or "required by rule"? If the former, then item 4 on lerfu words is not necessarily true (cy at the beginning of utterance or with enough cmavo around it should be fine). If the latter, then the subcomment under 6 about LEselDENpa is out of order since the rule says pause is necessary anyway. -- ''mi'e ((Nora LeChevalier|noras.))''