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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> Where Slaaby-Larsen's law fits in in this scheme is as a
> restriction on Meillet's law: the law fails if the syllable
> is closed.
That will be the phonetic rationale: Since Meillet's Law is nothing
but loss of accent, making the word an enklinomenon, failure of
Meillet's law to work is retention of the accent, in this case
obviously due to the additional weight caused by the clustering
consonants. Clusters that did not annull Meillet's Law, such as sT-
clusters, were apparently not heavy enough in real pronunciation.
Jens