From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 17368
Date: 2003-01-03
> Not necessarily. Loss of laryngeals is a completely natural process
> which can happen, or not, with or without any external motivation,
and
> at any time.
I read so many times things like "this combination of sounds changes because it is hard to say," without any explanation as to how such a combination would arise in the first place. I can understand it when it comes with compound words, or with two words pronounced consecutively, but how about otherwise?
David Fickett-Wilbar