Re: Reversible sound change applier

On 5/11/06, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:
> Alex Fink wrote:
>
> >It takes the simple-minded way out and returns every possible reconstruction
> >(usually a great many of them are ridiculous, in fact).
> >
> Can you give an example? This actually sounds super-cool to me.
http://members.shaw.ca/a00/rsca.html#reversibility

For example, with Mark Rosenfelder's Latin-to-Portuguese sound
changes, it naively reconstructs "distrito" into:

diiistericto diiisterictom diiisterictoms diiisterictos diiisterictu
diiisterictum diiisterictums diiisterictus diiisteriicto
diiisteriictom diiisteriictoms diiisteriictos diiisteriictu
diiisteriictum diiisteriictums diiisteriictus diiisteriiipto
diiisteriiiptom diiisteriiiptoms diiisteriiiptos ... (1080 skipped)
... divivistriviiptu divivistriviiptum divivistriviiptums
divivistriviiptus divivistrivipto divivistriviptom divivistriviptoms
divivistriviptos divivistriviptu divivistriviptum divivistriviptums
divivistriviptus divivistrivivipto divivistriviviptom
divivistriviviptoms divivistriviviptos divivistriviviptu
divivistriviviptum divivistriviviptums divivistriviviptus

(for a total of 1120 forms).

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>