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We could say that they were ,phonological paraphrases'. Thus the native Melissa Punk sspeaker might say, in informal description, that adding the plural suffix to leaf, i.e. leaf + ,'Plural', had the effect of adding the feature of voice to the /f/ to yield leaves. This is evidently a pretty general process: life/lives, knife/ knives, halflhalves, calf/calves, loaf/loaves, thief/thieves. It could be expressed formally in some such rule as this. A similar process would relate such pairs as safe/save, use (noun)luse verb) and adviceladvise, wreathlwreathe, teeth/teethe. Similarly we could suggest a general rule for French adjectives such asfou, doux and bon, which stated that the underlying or 'abstract' form in each case ended with a consonant, e.g. /fol/, bon/, /dus/, which, if not followed by a feminine suffix or by a word beginning with a vowel, was deleted by a 'transformational' rule with an attendant change of vowel qual­ity: /fu/, /du/ and /b6/. It is interesting that this account mirrors, to some extent, a historical process for which the orthographic forms in both languages are frequently evidence. 

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