Deletion/addition/metathesis count constitency

Christophe dos Santos master.fle.1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 13:57:24 UTC 2025


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

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