From: alex
Message: 25112
Date: 2003-08-16
> Did you ever try out the Sound Change Applier? You might like toI did not tried it Richard. I will try it. Is that indeed 146 rules
> try out the page
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/sounds/prep5d_rom.htm
> . Input and output, I'm afraid, is still by cut and paste - work
> in progress, both for Javascript programming and linguistic inputs.
> You can add words and play around with the text. For example, I
> haven't got the dropping of final 'r' that Miguel just cited. What
> I've got will only get you as far as soror > sorur . And I don;t
> think any honest set of sound changes will give you the last step,
> soru > sor&, for Romanian. ( soru/sor&/#_# is dishonest.)
>
> On the programming front, if I can't sove the input problems, I want
> to make it easier to embed the words and sound changes, ideally by
> using <SCRIPT> tags to pull in up-to-date code.
>
> Richard.