How to Evolve Your #Conlang - Part 1: Sound Change
Languages are never set in stone, and your conlang shouldn’t really be either. This is to be the first part of a recurring series on the basics of historical linguistics and how to evolve your conlang. In this first part, I will discuss the various kinds of sound changes that can occur and how to apply them to conlanging.
The obvious way to use historical linguistics in conlanging is to first…
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Some interesting data from the dissertation just mentioned in my last reblog (Kaspar Ozoliņš (2015), Revisiting Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut). The forms here demonstrate a regular sound change found in Armenian: metathesis of consonant clusters comprising a stop consonant (b, d, j, t, k) + *r.
Two other regular changes exhibited here are worth highlighting as well:
dissimilation *r-r > ł-r, in ‘brother’ and ‘spring’;
epenthesis of a or e (don’t ask me in what distribution) before an original word-initial consonant cluster *Cr-, in the last four examples.
my kid does a thing where they add a dental plosive after voiceless labiodental fricatives (though i have just noticed that both the examples i have start with /k/, chef -> cheft, cliff -> clifft, so it might be a fairly constrained thing).
anyway this makes me wonder how much consonantal drift is literally just up to parents wholesale adopting the cute way their kid talks because i cannot stop thinking "yes cheft" tbh
that's the whole post i can't be bothered looking into the research right now
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Pronunciations like somePthing, warmPth and prinTce instead of something, warmth and prince tend to be mocked. However, the [p] in emPty and the [d] in thunDer result from the same process! It's called excrescence and it occurs in many languages:
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/23517/an-ot-account-of-phonological-alignment-and-epenthesis-in-aligarh-urdu/mohd-hamid-raza
indexed journal, ugc journal list, submit paper online
This paper provides the phonological properties of the alignment and the economical procedures of the epenthesis at the syllable structure of the words in Aligarh Urdu. The paper determines the behavior of certain segments that attach to its own neighboring words and elaborates the economy of the syllable structure of tokens in a particular language. In Aligarh Urdu, there are various types of segmental processes in terms of addition or deletion of phonemes that affects to the root and alters the entire physical mechanism structure of words. The objectives of this paper are to know the exact economic conditions of syllable structures in the words after the addition, elision and alignment of segments in Aligarh Urdu. All the process of conflicts between the addition and deletion of the segments will manipulate within the framework of constraint rankings in Optimality Theory Prince and Smolensky, 1993 . The general purpose of this paper is to reveal the whole criteria of implications of principles of Optimality Theory and explore the actual framework of syllables with their marginal and obligatory components. The researcher governs the phonological property of consonant clusters with the help of faithfulness constraints and markedness constraints. The architecture of root word completely varies from the artificial formulation of other words, but after the imposition of constraints, we reveal the concrete fact of linguistic items in a specific language. The groundwork of this paper leads to the systematic phenomena of epenthesis and the elimination of vowels or consonants with the tenets of OT. This paper deals with the gradient property of segments that alters the framework of underlying form and affected by some other features at the surface form. The generalization of each step of the syllable structure of words should be related to the positional variation of input and output candidates. The conflicts between input and output candidates to become the winner as an optimal candidate can be solved only on the presence of constraint rankings that are evolving in the Optimality Theory.
