Re: Language changes, spelling reform (was Conlangea Dreaming)

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > I haven't even contemplated dialects except for that fact that Avren
> > Chevraqis has /l/ as well as /r/, instead of just /r/.  How do you derive
> > dialects?
>
> From the ancestral language, Common Kassí, just slightly different
> sound-changes.  For instance, in some dialects, /q/ became /k/ in *all*
[snip of lots of informative stuff]

<whistle>

If you would be so kind, by any chance could you refer me to sources on
"typical" sound changes (language family doesn't matter too much)?  I
have Crowley's _Historical Linguistics_ but I still don't feel I have a
very good grasp on likely sound changes, and I'm not really ready to
handle grammartical changes, unfortunately.

YHL