Re: [tied] Re: Laryngeal Loss =?UNKNOWN?Q?=28was?= Does Koenraad Els

From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 17379
Date: 2003-01-04

In a message dated 1/3/03 1:17:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, piotr.gasiorowski@... writes:


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