From: alex_lycos
Message: 18220
Date: 2003-01-28
> Dear Alex (and anyone else who's interested),thank you Richard.
> If you have a PC, I
> think it would be well worth your while getting acquainted with Mark
> Rosenfelder's 'sound change applier' at
> http://www.zompist.com/sounds.htm . The -p modifier is useful for
> debugging your sound changes. If you've got a compiler, it's well
> worth increasing the number of rules; a limit of 200 is too low for
> serious work. I've put together Miguel's rules (and a few others) in
> the attached file romanian.sc and some specimen Latin words in
> latin.lex. Note that vowel length needs to be marked with a colon
>
> It took quite a while to sort out the ordering of the rules, and I'm
> still not happy that I get $epte, not $apte, from septem 'seven'.
> I've cheated with a couple of the Latin words - 'dre:ctus' and
> 'dre:cta', not 'di:rectus' and 'di:re:cta', and 'virdia', not
> 'viridia'. The latter is interesting; I don't remember anyone
> commenting that when 'viridis syncopated to *'virdis, the neuter
> plural changed from vi'ridia to *'virdia
>
> Richard