Re: Sound changes

I was playing around, trying to modify Kazakh to sound like Hindi, and
realised that I don't know much about sound changes.  The way I was playing
was just modifying almost at random, but I get the impression there's more
to it than that.

How do you generate a reasonably logical, realistic set of sound change
rules?
How rigorously do you need to apply these rules? (are there exceptions in
historic sound change systems?)

In search of the collective wisdom of the List,

Geoff

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