From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 17379
Date: 2003-01-04
Most typically, vowel reduction and loss creates difficult consonant clusters: trisyllabic CVCRVCV > C&CRVC& > monosyllabic CCRVC, etc. One striking example is Polish, which developed from Proto-Slavic, an open-syllable language with simple onsets, but now admits some really monstrous clusters. Most other modern Slavic languages are of the same phonotactic type.
Piotr
Thanks.
David Fickett-Wilbar