Re: applications

Aidan Grey wrote:
>
> --- Mario Bonassin <zebuleon@...> wrote:
> > If you could have any application you wanted to
> > assist with you
> > conlanging what would you want it to do?   I know
> > there are a couple of
> > programs already out there, are they enough or would
> > you like to see
> > something else?
> >
> > Any ideas are welcome.
> >
>
>    A program that would accept a list of roots and
> sound changes, and output the result of applying those
> sound changes. It would accept digraphs (or even use
> only digraphs), accept categories (V=any vowel), apply
> subrules (vowel lengthening with consonant loss, for
> example), optional choices in the environment, and so
> on. The Sound change program on the valdyas website is
> great, but doesn't work very well because it is
> limited to single phonemes. That means that if two
> phonemes combine to create one (/s/+/j/ > /S/, for
> example), the program applies rules to the /j/ after
> it has supposedly merged the two.
>
>   To be honest, I'd love to see a good program for
> this from anyone....
There's a sound program out there called PHONO that, while not what you
describe, is pretty open ended, if a little difficult. It can deal with
sound changes involving more than one phoneme. I don't have the link
handy at the moment, maybe someone else does.

--
Robert

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