26-04-2019, 10:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-04-2019, 10:43 AM by ChenZheChina.)
I was reading You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. when I thought about this question:
How can we make sure that a label is sharing stem with another word in paragraphs?
Consider words below:
What I want to say is that, it might not be that easy to consider the first two word pairs are actually of the same stem, if we do not know their real meanings in prior. If the last word pair is written not in this form, but in some phonetic spelling (like IPA), it might be not easy to tell them, either.
This reminds me something.
One day, one of my friends told me that, in English, some words change their tone when conjugating. Then he gave me an example, where repeat is split into rě (3rd tone) and pèat (4th tone), while repeated is split into rě (3rd tone), pēa (1st tone) and tèd (4th tone). (Warning: DO NOT take his statement serious. He really thinks so, but we all know that this is not how English actually works. This is just an example that how crazy phonetic spelling systems might be, if they were not designed scientifically)
If tones were not marked by diacritic marks but different letters, I guess it could be much harder to find stem from these words.
Therefore, I think it might be a tough mission to link those labels to “regular” words in paragraphs. It’s hard to prove them to be of same stem, if two words are not exactly the same.
How can we make sure that a label is sharing stem with another word in paragraphs?
Consider words below:
- Pronounce (prə’naʊns) vs Pronunciation (prə,nʌnsi’eɪʃən)
- Explain (ɪks’pleɪn) vs Explanation (,ɛksplə’neɪʃən)
- Record (rɪ’kɔ:rd) vs Record (’rekərd)
What I want to say is that, it might not be that easy to consider the first two word pairs are actually of the same stem, if we do not know their real meanings in prior. If the last word pair is written not in this form, but in some phonetic spelling (like IPA), it might be not easy to tell them, either.
This reminds me something.
One day, one of my friends told me that, in English, some words change their tone when conjugating. Then he gave me an example, where repeat is split into rě (3rd tone) and pèat (4th tone), while repeated is split into rě (3rd tone), pēa (1st tone) and tèd (4th tone). (Warning: DO NOT take his statement serious. He really thinks so, but we all know that this is not how English actually works. This is just an example that how crazy phonetic spelling systems might be, if they were not designed scientifically)
If tones were not marked by diacritic marks but different letters, I guess it could be much harder to find stem from these words.
Therefore, I think it might be a tough mission to link those labels to “regular” words in paragraphs. It’s hard to prove them to be of same stem, if two words are not exactly the same.
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