| A Catalog of Basic Linguistic Symbols | ||
| Sym bol | Function | Example |
| ¡ | 'is replaced by' | x ¡ y = 'x is replaced by y' |
| > | 'was replaced by' (historically) | x ¡ y / z__ = 'x became y after z' |
| / | 'in the context:' | x ¡ y / z__ = 'x is replaced by y after z' |
| ___ | context (distribution) | x ¡ y / __z = 'x is replaced by y before z' |
| /x/ | phoneme boundaries | /d/ ¡ [t] / [-Voiced] ___ = '/d/ is replaced by [t] after voiceless consonants' |
| [x] | (allo)phone boundaries | [a] = the (allo)phone 'a' |
| ¤ | null: Insertion rules | ¤ ¡ /-øü/ = 'insert the suffix -ing' |
| ¤ | null: Deletion rules: | /n/ ¡ ¤ / ___ [+Liquid] = 'delete /n/ before /r/ or /l/ |
| # | word boundary | [+Voiced] ¡ [-Voiced] / ___# = 'Voiced consonants are replaced by voiceless ones at the end of words' |
| - | morpheme boundary | pre- 'the prefix /pri/'; -ing = 'the suffix /-øü/' |
| CAPS | Variables | V = 'any vowel' C = 'any consonant' S = 'any syllable' |
| [+X] | Morphological or phonological feature | [+Agent] = 'Agent noun': cook, baker [+Front] = 'front vowel' = /i ø À e ê a/ |
| * | ungrammatical unattested (historical) | *edbake = 'edbake is ungrammatical' *bher- = 'bher- is unattested in writings' |
| ? | questionable | ?unstoppable by hand= probably ungrammatical |
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