Re: [tied] Re: Balkan Serpents (was: alb. gji (breast))

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Sorry, I replied via the group page and funny things happened to the
> encoded characters. Since it was for Alex, I'd better correct the
> text for the sake of clarity:
>
> -ealã > -eawã > -ea (but with the glide preserved in sandhi
> between the noun and the definite article)
>
> Piotr

A question: why should a geminate "ll" became assimilate when followed
by "a"? Which should be the phonetically way that an "ll" or an "l"
folowed by an /a/,/o/,/u/ will dissapier?