Re: *mumble* *grumble* sound changes *mutter*

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>From: Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
>Paul Bennett writes:
>> The more I look at the results, the less satisfied I am that they
>> plausibly represent an IE language at around 1000CE, when compared to
>> the  difference between PIE and (e.g.) Old English, or even Lithuanian.
>
>You mean it's still too closely related to PIE?
Yes. Disturbingly so, in fact. Not enough Afro-Asiatic influence, either. To say
nothing of the conhistorical contact with Sumerian, and plausibly Akkadian,
Elamite, Old Persian, and, just... GAH!

>> I need to start paying
>> attention to vowel length and stress placement in PIE, as well as
>> learning  more about the nominal and verbal stems, and the sound
>> changes in both  Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. Not to mention the
>> sound changes in Coptic  and Hebrew. Ach y fi.
>
>In a (remote) future version of the script, stress will probably be
>directly supported.  Benct had to do some complicated stuff, too, to
>handle stress, I think.  I did not need it, since stress is always on
>the first syllable in my file, but I did put it onto my TODO list.
I plan to handle it by having a stress "phoneme" in the source text at this
point, but I could conceivably have some rules to insert that phoneme based on
vowel length, or syllable weight, or some other factor.

>> This will be no small undertaking, I fear...
>
>But hopefully, it's fun! :-)
>
>And please show us results as soon as you think you have something
>presentable. :-)
Don't hold your breath waiting. It may be some time.



Paul