Liangmai, a Tibeto-Burman member spoken in North East India (NEI), has twenty consonant phonemes and six vowel with four contrastive tones. Three stops three nasals permitted at the end of syllable all consonants occurs beginning syllable. A voiceless libio-dental fricative which is rare other NEI languages major consonant. Vowel system several diphthongs. The close central unrounded /ɨ/ can ap...

of the word is not entirely familiar and requires effortful decoding. First the child says /i . . . i/, then /iz/, then /land/, then /iz land/, and all of a sudden she gets it right: she correctly reads island aloud. English is notorious for words like island, with spellings that only partly reveal how they are spoken. Nonetheless, the way a word is spelled almost always reveals something of ho...

We introduce the proceedings from the workshop ‘Computing and Historical Phonology: 9th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Morphology and Phonology’.