Re: Sound changes

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Hi all!
>
>Are there any rules for sound changes in a language? I mean if I'd like
>to create a new dialect, or a new language from an existing one, is it
>just the question of my taste, which sound changes I use? Or are there
>any changes, that cannot happen together.... If I'd like to create 2
>dialects, which sound changes can I use? (I mean if I use similar ones,
>I'll get only 1 dialect :) I hope you understand what I mean.....
>
>Thanks
>        Balazs
I think it's pretty much what you like. If you want it historically
plausible, it helps to take a look at dialects of an existing language to
see what general trends there are. For instance, in Montreiano, final and
intervocalic D's drop, because they have a tendency to do this in several
Spanish dialects. You obviously wouldn't have /k/ > /g/ and /g/ > /k/ at
the same time either. But i'd say that in general it's whatever suits you.




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