Re: Sound change rules for erosion

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:35:27PM -0500, Tristan McLeay wrote:

> germanic languages). I think your English intuition should give you a
> rough idea of what makes a goodly germanic consonant cluster. I think
> you're also a bit l-happy.
Pure luck of the draw :)  L had the same frequency as every other
consonant for the proto-language.

Though, you should have seen what happened when I applied the "mula"
and "lu" prefixes to "lelipe".  I'm thinking of banning doubled
consonants.  Either by writing them out of existence via sound change
rules, simply collapsing them (the presence of a single consonant in
a stress environment where a double one would be expected makes this
less ambiguous than you might think), or by first prohibiting consecutive
syllables beginning with the same consonant in root words, and then
using one of the other two strategies to deal with morpheme boundaries.

Amanda