Re: Introduction and sandhi scripting question.

On 7/5/06, Edgard Bikelis <bikelis@...> wrote:
> I have never used Perl,
> and then I have no idea about how to use this:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~pne/Lingua-SoundChange-0.05/SoundChange.pm
>
> that seems very promising, anyway.
Wow, blast from the past.

I wrote that thing, way back when... judging by CPAN's page, it hasn't
been touched since 2002.



On 7/5/06, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:
> First list the symbols of each vowel type:
>
> grade2: éóEO
> grade1: eoiu
> grade0: ZZeo
>
> I'm using Z to represent deletion.
>
> A rule to downgrade a vowel from grade 2 to grade 1 looks like this: (iirc)
>
> <grade2> `grade2`grade1 _
>
> which means
>
> "any time you find a <grade2> vowel, replace it with the vowel in grade1
> in the same position in the list, in ANY environment."
>
> It would be fantastic if somebody who knew Perl could take apart one of
> the popular appliers and make a syntax specifically for patterned shifts
> like this, though. Mine is sort of a hack.
My sound change applier allows for classes to be replaced by classes
(e.g. [ptk] by [bdg], meaning all three of p->b, t->d, k->g in one
rule). I'm not quite sure what you mean by "patterned shift", though.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>