Word evolution game

[Travis B.]

[tɕɛjəmniɕi]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Breaking of stressed (assuming initial stress) open-mid vowels.

[Man in Space]

What is Rosenfelder's Law?

Strong syncope of unstressed vowels irrespective of the resulting trainwrecks of consonant clusters that may result. He brought it up in either the LCK or the ACK (I cannot recall which offhand) in Nishnaabemwin as a real-life example of a method that can take a wrecking ball to morphology; I found it fitting to refer to it as a sound law named after him.

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[tɕɛjəmːiɕi]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

nasal clusters assimilate into a geminate.

[Travis B.]

[tɕɛjəbmiɕi]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Geminate nasals become prestopped nasals.

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[tɕejɛbmiɕɨ]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

vowel shifting before palatals.

[Travis B.]

[tɕeɟɛbmiɕɨ]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Onset [j] > [ɟ].

[Lērisama]

[ˈt͡ɕeɟbmiɕ]
Tcemeniceï
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Rosenfelderification (again), and marking the initial stress assumed so far

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[ˈɕteɟmbiɕ]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Metathesis of any plosive and following non-plosive, including affricates.

[Travis B.]

[ˈɕtɕeɟmbiɕ]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

[ɕt] > [ɕtɕ]

[Lērisama]

[ˈɕtɕejmbiː]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Lenition of coda consonants

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[ˈst͡ɕejnbiː]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

dissimilation of consonant clusters.

[Travis B.]

[ˈst͡ɕejənəbiː]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Epenthesis to break up difficult clusters.

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[ˈst͡ɕejenebiː]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

[ə] becomes an echo vowel.

[Travis B.]

[ˈst͡ɕajenebiː]
Ctejmbic
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

[ej] > [aj]

[Lērisama]

[sɨˈt͡ɕajenebiː]
sceienebii
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Epenthesis

[Travis B.]

[sɨˈt͡ɕajẽːbiː]
sceienebii
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Elision of unstressed intervocalic [n], resulting in a nasal long vowel or diphthong.

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[sɨˈt͡ɕaɲẽːbiː]
sceienebii
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

nasal assimilation of glides.

[Travis B.]

[sɨˈt͡ɕanjẽːbiː]
sceienebii
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

[ɲ] > [nj]

[Lērisama]

[sɨˈt͡ɕanĩːbiː]
sceienebii
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Glide coalescence

[Travis B.]

[sɨˈt͡ɕanɛ̃ːbiː]
sceienebii
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Opening of nasal vowels.