How to Write Phonological Rules for Conlang Evolution, Diachronic Change, Allophony, etc.

[@connorsimpson5353]

What? No Optimality Theory? This is giving me flashbacks to my Phonetics and Phonology class. 🤣Great review for the linguists in the audience!

[@AgmaSchwa]

We'll get to Optimality Theory soon enough I'm sure, hahaha. You and me both!

[@TheZetaKai]

For my SCA2 categories, I also chose B for back vowels and F for front vowels. I've also noticed that D is common for voiced consonants, whereas T is commonly used for voiceless consonants.

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Thank thee a lot! This is full thrilling to me owing to this being right what I need for my fictional proto-speech's phonemic evolution!

[@shi_no_kurai_kage]

Instructions unclear: I am autistic

[@jeremiahthornton7938]

So am I. Basic stuff just flies over my head unless I'm given a hands-on example.

[@thehosphourian1733]

Helpful video, thanks.

[@Ryanetherite]

i was just looking for somewhere to learn this, but i didn't know what it was called ! tysm

[@gaxamillion_]

ŋepic

[@entwistlefromthewho]

How would one write that a word-initial consonant changes (lenition) when the previous word ends in a vowel?

[@AgmaSchwa]

so this would be written as [plosive] / [fricative] / [vowel]#_ or [P] / [F] / V(#)_ The brackets are important because these lenited sounds are allophones if the original plosive in this situation, even if they themselves are their own phonemes, if that makes sense.

[@camelcaseco]

This was a great video, thanks for making it! It'd be great if you could link some of the tools you mention, as some I can't find myself.

[@AgmaSchwa]

The tools are actually linked in the description of my previous video on Sound Change Appliers!

[@camelcaseco]

@@AgmaSchwa oh awesome, thanks!

[@kaw57_]

so true!

[@hanskotto8630]

First one to like and comment yeeeeeeaa!

[@user-tk2jy8xr8b]

I've noticed you have obstruents and sonorants as categories on the same list. Mind naming any [+obstruent, +sonorant] or [-obstruent, -sonorant] phone?

[@Namse21]

What is /\ in 6:35?

[@AgmaSchwa]

that's part of /\\/_, aka metathesis, I explain it a couple minutes later in the video

[@Namse21]

@@AgmaSchwa Oh… missed it… thank you

[@volvagianintendo6465]

What a funny foretape!

[@hemjava]

Hey Nguh, I am making sound changes for my conlang, but I don’t know if I should turn voiceless glottalized obsruents voiced (as I turn the voiced ones voiceless) or add a rhotic (as I do with my glottalized non-obstruents). Any advice?

[@AgmaSchwa]

Hey! At the end of the day it's up to you and I haven't seen the rest of the language, but I guess if you're adding rhotics in a bunch of other places, then it might be more naturalistic-looking to have this particular situation *not* lead to rhotics. Having this situation be the irregular out of the batch could make things look more realistic, if that's what you're going for.

[@hemjava]

Thanks! Hrāgs!

[@haydend.maniac227]

TFIN The Future Is Nguh You still didn’t answer my question Nguh-sama

[@GlaceonStudios]

TFIŊ?

[@haydend.maniac227]

Blah! What? I wanted to ask Nguh-senpai about his introduction to specbio Plus TFIN sounds funny (sadly I couldn’t type out capital Agma there)

[@AgmaSchwa]

Oho, I was wondering which question you were talking about, haha. My intro to spec bio was probably the various documentaries on the Science Channel, from Life After People and on.

[@haydend.maniac227]

Agma Schwa I see

[@christopherellis2663]

You said ŋ /\, instead of ŋə

[@doyouknowkeplertwentytwob4032]

Bro tf is a delrel

[@AgmaSchwa]

lolll, delrel stands for "delayed release," which is basically a category that includes fricatives and affricates. the release is "delayed" by increased air turbulence before release, which scientifically does literally delay the release.

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

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[@This.one.1]

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