Northwest IE attributes

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

>Not *so* unlikely, after all. Palatalizations are, so to speak, the
>garden-variety of sound-changes.

-- yes, but the same one in two adjacent groups for different reasons?  This
violates explicatory parsimony.

And as you point out, this particular change is _not_ common in the IE
languages.  Only Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic show it with any degree of
consistency (Armenian possibly too).