As it turns out, the key was not in studying the part with the <r(r)>; they key was in figuring out what the <y> is (and is not) in each of the families.
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I am planning to attend two conferences in Southern California a week apart: the IDALA Language & Learning Conference on Saturday, March 8th, at UCLA, and the CSHA Convergence Conference in Pasadena, March 13-16. I'm not presenting at either conference, just exhibiting.
Note that I didn't have to decide when or how to introduce the IPA. The opportunity to introduce it and its relationship to understanding English spelling arose organically from our syntactic study.
Why is a great etymologist a great etymologist?
Optimality Theory focuses more on competing constraints than on conventions, and it considers that the optimal form is the one that incurs the least egregious contraventions of those constraints.