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On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Barry Garcia wrote:
The problem though is manhandling latin polysyllabic words to fit them into a PAn bi-syllabic structure (which Tagalog still favors for base roots: inom, kain, luto, aral, etc), although there are attested trisyllabic bases which got reduced, such as *paNudan > pandan (Pandanus) by dropping the middle vowel. My thought was to eliminate the unstressed syllables, much like what Spanish already has done on its way to becoming its modern self. Roger then suggested doing that, then dealing with clusters (which PAn had few). The easiest way would be to reduce them down, either assimilation, or just getting rid of one in favor of the strongest, except perhaps where nasal + consonant comes into play. Thoughts?
Sounds like good ideas to me. -Steg (Stephen)