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Help with sound changes

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Saturday, September 11, 2004, 21:44
Could anyone check these sound changes for realisticness? Any other feedback
is welcome...
Thanks,
Trebor



Grand Master Plan (GMP)

This is the Grand Master Plan (GMP) which I am using to derive a new
language from English. This project aims not only to derive a phonologically
different language from Modern English (namely the Southern Ontario dialect
of Canada), but also a grammatically and lexically different one. Below are
listed all the sound changes I employed, using X-Sampa.

Consonants
p_h, p>p
p_h, p>? (when not starting a stressed syllable)
b>p
b>p>? (syllable-finally)
m>m
m=>m@
f>f
f>p>? (syllable-finally)
v>f
v>f>p>? (when not starting a stressed syllable)
T>t
D>d>t
t_h, t>t
d>t
n=n
n=>n@
tS)>k
tS)>k>? (syllable-finally)
dZ)>g>k
dZ)>g>k>? (syllable-finally)
s>s
z>s
r\>4 (syllable-initially; see the vowels section below)
r\=>3
l>l
l=??
S>C
Z>j\>C
k_h, k>k
k>? (syllable-finally)
g>k
h>?

Consonant Clusters
pr\>P
pl>tK)
br\>P
bl>pl>tK)
pt>t:>t
bd>*d:>d
fl>K
tr\>ts)
dr\>dz)>ts)
sp_h>p:>p
sp_hr\>P
sm>m:>m
st>s:>s
st_hr\>ts)
sn>n:>n
sl>K
sk>S>C
sk_hr\>h4>4
kt>t:>t
ks>s:>s
kr\>h4>4
kl>*hl>K
gz>z:>*z>s
gr\>h4>4
gl>K
kw>k

Vowels
i>i:
ir\>i:
I>i
E>e
er\>e:
&>A
A>A
Ar\>a:
V>@
word-final A>@ in polysyllabic words

Diphthongs
@U)r\>o:
@U)>o
U>3
u>u
AI)>A:
EI)>e:
OI)>o:
&U)>A:
m, n>0, nasalizing the previous vowel
wi>u:j>u:
wI>Uj>u
wE>ew>ju>y
wA>Aw>A:
w@U)>o:
wAI)>A:w>A:
wEI)>e:w>ju:>y:
jA>A:
jE>e:
j@U)>o:
ju>y