Talk:Conlang/Intermediate/History/Common sound changes

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How do you distinguish from Individual Sound Changes and General Sound Changes? It would be a nice thing to add. 81.84.137.181 21:51, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC) Sorry. That was me... Jotomicron 21:54, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Japanese
Japanese has alveolopalatals and not postalveolars.

Reminder
It would be good at this point to remind the reader that allophones are indicated with square brackets. Also, tell us what the allophone [4] is as mentioned in the Lenition section (instead of forcing us to go searching for a link to the CXS page) Thanks! Westley Turner (discuss • contribs) 23:49, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Grammar And Sound Changes
"Very important is also that sound change is grammatically unrestricted. This means in simpler terms, that a sound change can not only apply to verbs, it has to apply to all words in all inflections. Only phonological constraints are allowed."

This is false. Many Brazilian Portuguese varieties (such as Sulista and Paulista) delete final on verbs, but not on nouns. This yields different pronunciations for "poder" as a verb and "poder" as a noun. The verb is and the noun is. And this is only an example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brunoczim (talk • contribs) 21:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I wonder if that passage was meant to refer to something different from what you're referring to, so that both can be right. I think I may have seen a similar remark somewhere else; possibly, if I can chase it down, the other reference will turn out to be clearer on the distinction. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 01:16, 3 December 2020 (UTC)