Re: THEORY: Reduction of final consonants

BPJ:
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So the questions are: what
other natlangs have a similar constraint?
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I know absolutely nothing about it, but Mandarin does.  Words
can only end in /n/ or /N/ in Mandarin, whereas in nearby
Cantonese, you can have a number of coda consonants.  I'm
sure someone on the list can explain how the mother language
apparently had several coda consonants, and how most of
them went the way of the dodo in Mandarin.

-David
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