Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Some Sound Changes

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 4:42
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:24:13 -0500, Alex Fink
<a4pq1injbok_0@...> wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:01:01 -0500, Jeffrey Jones
<jsjonesmiami@...>
>wrote: >>I just made a set of sound changes for yet another new project that I'd like >>opinions on. I don't think I have the correct form, but I hope it will be >clear. > >Most of my observations were made by John V; I'd just add that in > >> 7. tj, dj > ts), dz) > >I'd expect /t_hj/ > /ts)_h/ as well, to later turn to /s/ in step 9. I >think langs with affricates and aspirated stops overwhelmingly have >aspirated affricates, and your three stop series seem to pattern together >before this.
OK, I may have to change the order of some rules, since I'd like /t_hj/ to come out as [C], not [s].
>Altogether, nicely done and naturalistic-feeling. And I too would like to >see phonotactics. > >Alex
Thanks. It's been a long time since I tried to do more than 1-step sound changes. The phonotactics depends partly on what I do with the morphology, which is in progress. Jeff