Zompist sound change program bugs? (was Re: Sound change rules for erosion)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:37:37 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:14:57 -0500, Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Sound Change Applier is at http://www.zompist.com/sounds.htm.
Another annoyance is that rules of the form

CATEGORY1 -> CATEGORY2symbol / environment

Fail, and act as if they were

CATEGORY1 -> CATEGORY2 / environment

e.g.

K=ptk
G=bdg
G/K'/_

produces

ba -> pa

rather than

ba -> p'a


Also, this ...

T=td
K=kg
TK^/x/_

produces

tikel -> xel
dhotis -> xx
dik^es -> x^es
melitia -> melix

which are very, very wrong, although intereseting.





Paul