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Modify pronounciation grammar to deal with diphthongs that are follow… #42

Closed jillianchang closed 3 years ago

jillianchang commented 3 years ago

…ed by short onsets

In our old grammar, a diphthong followed by a short onset such as "aeole" would be mapped as "ajole." So, as per the meter grammar, the syllables would look like "UOUOU," but the j in the diphthong should treated as the coda (it should be "UCUOU").

To fix this, I switched around the composition of the pron rules so that geminate j rule applies after the diphthong rule is applied, hence "aeole" turns into "ajjole." I realize this may be incorrect pronunciation-wise, but it was the simplest fix I could think of.

kylebgorman commented 3 years ago

I didn't know this was geminated (I wasn't sure whether gemination applied in this context) but given that it's the first syllable of a verse I guess we have to assume that it is, good work.