Re: Mutations in General

From: "Peter Clark" <peter-clark@...>
> Quoting Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@...>:
>
> > On the deletion of the voiceless stop. There is a universal tendency to
avoid
> > nasal/voiceless stop sequences (often abbreviated *NC); this tendency is
> > expressed in different ways in different languages and to different degrees.
>
>     Universal? Then what about words like "ant"? Or is there something I
missed?

I dunno, I have [{:~t_}] here.

But it's a tendency, not a rule.  There's also a tendency that words will be
pronounced the way they're heard,  a tendency that syllables don't have codas,
whatever.


    *Muke!
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