Re: The latest version of the phonology of Br'ga

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:06:18 -0400, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>
wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
>> My one real area of concern is over the use of |rs| for /s`/. Do I
>> allow  strings like |drs| to be ambiguous? Is that too much of a burden
>> on the  reader?
>
> Hm.
>
> Well, I'd expect that one would be more frequent than the other, and
> it'll never occur at morpheme boundaries due to your metathesis rule
Quite right. |grs| is still plausible, though. I suspect that's a rare
enough case that I can live with it.

> (cool one)
Thanks.

I'm thinking about making the sandhi rules more complex, but doing so
always leads to a need to enlarge the orthography, and potentially the
phoneme set. I think I like the simplicity of the frontwards rule, though
I might throw in some exceptions to the by-the-book notion of frontedness,
for instance calling apical sounds more "fronted" than laminal sounds in
all cases.





Paul