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[Frank Y Gladney]

William Ryan writes: 

>>Gugl'nut' one would expect to be a semelfactive verb and thus less 
>>used. Personally I find the alternative guglianut', also to be found, 
>>much more euphonious. [...] These are not phonetic but >>>>>>>>>>morphological mechanisms [,,,]. 

These two forms may in fact be related by phonetic (euphonious) mechanisms. _Gugl'nut'_ is unavoidably trisyllabic.  My off-line correspondent informs me it is pronounced as if spelled _gugyl'nut'_.  That spelling shows the [g] being released before the coronal occlusion for the [l'] is formed.  But if the [l'] occlusion is formed before the [g] is released, this results in a (potentially) syllabie [l'], which is realized as [l'i], corresponding to the spelling _guglianut'_. 

Frank 

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