Re: [tied] Re: Slaaby-Larsen's law

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:45:29 +0000, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
<elme@...> wrote:

>--- In 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.

That's how I should have put it...

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