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I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on<br>
treatments of this question in literature.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This phonetic change in Nahuatl is discussed by Campbell and Langacker 1978, part II (in International Journal of American Linguistics), p.201, ft 43. I think that they were the first to propose a morphological conditioning for the loss of initial *p- (preservation only in verbs and some kinship terms, because they are generally prefixed and therefore *p is not word-initial in at least part of the paradigm).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Guillaume Jacques<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO<br><a href="http://xiang.free.fr">http://xiang.free.fr</a><br> <a href="http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/export_listeperso_xml.php?url_id=0000000003849">http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/export_listeperso_xml.php?url_id=0000000003849</a><br>