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Re: Sound change rules for erosion

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, November 20, 2003, 15:16
Staving Amanda Babcock:
>On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:36:44AM +0000, Peter Bleackley wrote: > > > Here are some plausible changes. > > Palatalise consonants before i. > > [pi]->[fi], [ti]->[Si], [ki]->[tS)i] etc. > > Voice unvoiced consonants before u. > >Good heavens, you read my mind. I'd been thinking of both of those. > > > Drop unstressed vowels when the sonority of the following consonant is > > greater than that of the preceeding one. > >So how would this work? 'pAtol would become 'pAtl? Does it still apply >if the following consonant is a cluster? Would 'pAmaw"pe (woman) become >'pAmu"pe? >
All of the answers to these are up to you! Play around with them until you get the effect you want. Pete