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Benjamin Fortson fortson at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Wed Jan 30 21:21:47 UTC 2002


If there is a "trend" towards simplifying these expressions, it's not a
new one. This was the subject of part of a lecture in the intro historical
linguistics course I took in 1987. Given the various dialects with
word-final cluster simplification it's probably arisen in lots of places
at lots of different times.

Ben



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