Deletion/addition/metathesis count constitency

[Christophe dos Santos]

Dear Greg and Yvan,

I just wanted to report a strange count from Phon.

The target (non)-word is /filpa/.

The actual production is [flipa].

For this word, the only errors that were reported are :

The deletion of [i].

The epenthesis of an [i].

No migration/metathesis is reported for that record.

No error was reported for /l/ even though the sound is in the same situation as [i].

I suppose Phon worked from left to right and detected the deletion of the [i]. During the alignment process, /l/ took the place of the deleted [i]. Then, /l/ was in the right place and was not reported as deleted. Finally, after the production of [l], the insertion of [i] was detected.

Regarding the lack of a reported migration or metathesis, I imagine that no check is made between a consonant and a vowel.

I did not check if this inconsistency in the count (errors counted for [i] and not [l], no migration/metathesis) is limited to that non-word or if it applies to all words of the shape CV-Liquid.CV produced as C-Liquid-V.CV.

I hope this makes sense to you and helps improve Phon.

Best,

Christophe dos Santos

[Yvan Rose]

Hi Christophe,

Thank you, very much indeed for your input. If you could please send me the Phon file you're working with in a personal message (at yvan...@gmail.com). I'd like to see how we could address this. 

The detail that puzzles me is that vowels and consonants should normally not align with one another; else it's in the detection of the V-C inversion that there is an issue. On this count, please know that Phon should not detect this phone inversion as a metathesis, which we define as a consonant-to-consonant relation. Yet this doesn't mean the process shouldn't be capture. 

All the best,

Yvan 

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