Re: Sound change rules for erosion
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 20, 2003, 10:36 |
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Staving Amanda Babcock:
>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:03:17PM -0500, Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> > >Does anybody have a good set of sound change rules written up for
> > >eroding a language with few phonemes and all open syllables (polynesian
> > >feel) into one with shorter words, more phonemes, and complex Germanic-
> > >sounding syllables?
> >
> > What's the starting phoneme set? Is there phonemic accent (stress, tone, or
> > what-have-you)?
>
>I currently have:
>
> C=ptkmlrswh
> V=aeiuo
> all syllables CV
>
Here are some plausible changes.
Palatalise consonants before i.
[pi]->[fi], [ti]->[Si], [ki]->[tS)i] etc.
Voice unvoiced consonants before u.
Drop unstressed vowels when the sonority of the following consonant is
greater than that of the preceeding one.
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