|Title:||ETYMO - An Interpreter to Simulate Historical Sound
Change| |Description:||ETYMO is an IBM-compatible program which
simulates regular historical sound change. ETYMO works as an
interpreter which first reads a set of linguistical rules that
describe the diachronical evolution of a language. It then
applies those rules to ancestor words (which can be single words
or corpora containing an unlimited number of words) and
calculates its descendency line or lines (the program can handle
''single'' and ''multiple'' evolutions - in the latter case, the
different possibilities are represented in an evolution tree).
For each evolution step, ETYMO can give detailed information
about the transformation. All evolutions can be saved and
printed out. When used for corpus calculations, ETYMO can give
statistical information about the regularity of the evolution. A
set of linguistical rules describing the evolution from latin to
spanish is available. The program has been developped as a
diploma work (''ETYMO - un inte