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Re: Reversible sound change applier

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 22:26
Alex Fink wrote:
> Everyone's enchanted with Henrik's schcompile right now (myself included), I > know; but perhaps there's room for another sound change applier? > > With this hope I introduce rsca, a reversible sound change applier: > http://members.shaw.ca/a00/rsca.html > > I came up with the design for rsca in late February, but the demands of the > school term meant I couldn't start seriously coding until a week or two ago, > and now here it is. Some features are: > - it can run sound changes backward, reconstructing earlier forms of words, > as well as forwards (which as far as I know no other sound change applier does);
How does that work with mergers? E.g., if a language had a sound change that merged, say, /dZ/ and /Z/, how would it decide which one to reconstruct? Without looking at related languages/dialects, or possibly inflectional forms within the language, there's no way of knowing which one is the case.