Towards a Specification for the Formal Notation of Sound Laws

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https://doi.org/10.15475/calcip.2026.2.1

Keywords:

sound laws, sound law notation, specification, MISoL

Abstract

Formal notations for the handling of sound laws in historical linguistics have been employed by linguists for a long time. So far, however, linguists have barely tried to describe their notation practices formally. As a result, a lot of variation can be found in the practice of sound law notation. This specification can be seen as a first attempt to provide an exhaustive documentation for a particular sound law notation scheme. This notation scheme accompanies an online-tool in which sound laws can be applied to actual words in order to test the consequences of sound change in practice.

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2026-07-15

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2026): Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice

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Towards a Specification for the Formal Notation of Sound Laws. (2026). Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice: Tutorials on Computational Approaches to the History and Diversity of Languages, 9(2), 65-83. https://doi.org/10.15475/calcip.2026.2.1