PNS

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46129
Date: 2006-09-19

> > (3) Prokosch's Law (PL): voiced non-sibilant fricatives become voiced
> > stops before *n in medial clusters.

> Let me tidy it up a bit -- I was writing too hastily.
>
> The term "Prokosch's Law" is infelicitous, since it's sometimes used
> with reference to the "bimoraic condition" (the preference for heavy
> stressed syllables in Germanic). Let's call it "Pre-Nasal
> Strengthening"
> (PNS).


That PNS thing suffers from the problem that it gobbles up the
*n before anyone sees it. How do you know it was there in the
first place?


Torsten