Re: Sound change rules for erosion

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:14:57 -0500, Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:10:03PM -0500, Isidora Zamora wrote:
>
>> What is this Sound Change program?
>
> You can find it on http://www.zompist.com, which is an amazingly
> excellent
> resource for conlanging, conculturing and all sorts of neat things.  The
> Sound Change Applier is at http://www.zompist.com/sounds.htm.
This is a great program. What's annoying is I can't find any easy way to
enforce vowel harmony, so I'll have to apply that as a final step manually,
which is annoying since historically it was not the last of the sound
changes.

What bugs me is that each rule is applied only once, rather than
repeatedly.

Thus my test rules,

e/e$/_
$o/ë$/_
$ë/ë$/_
$//_#

Produce

eoo -> eë$o

and not

eoo -> eëë

which really makes it hard to enforce harmony.




Paul

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