More phonology
Chris, who is a real linguist, reminded me of the concise notation that linguists have for expressing rules like those I recently wrote about. The rules for both past participle and plural are the same at this level of abstraction, and can be written in just two lines of symbols, although I don't know how to write them in HTML. Chris describes the first rule in words as "epenthesis [insertion of vowel] for CC [consonant followed by consonant] at same place and manner of articulation" and the second rule as "assimilation of word-final voicing".
It's nice that linguists have gotten so good at this stuff that they can communicate so concisely about it.
