Phonotactically

Also, about phonotactically avoided /j/ in Etruscan: do you mean like in 'Larθal' vs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The YA-/A- alternation in Minoan is merely a reflection of the phonotactically motivated avoidance of word-initial semivowel /j/. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, about phonotactically avoided /j/ in Etruscan: do you mean like in "Larθal" vs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is it possible that we're dealing with a Semitic borrowing adopted into Mid IE as *rad̰éma-, thereafter shortened to *rᵊd̰émᵊ- by Reduction and transformed to *d̰ᵊrémᵊ- by phonotactically-motivated Metathesis before finally becoming early Late IE *d̰rem- by way of Syncope? ❋ Unknown (2008)

This would then become late MIE *nᵊpéwᵊ- via Reduction and then *pneu- by early Late IE via phonotactically motivated Metathesis in order to avoid the less desirable outcome of **npeu-. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One thing I just noticed is that there seems to be a kind of symmetry presenting itself between two different phonotactically motivated processes happening at the same time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When syncope as I propose here occurs in a language, it's not unusual for additional tactics to be employed to avoid phonotactically invalid clusters like *RR-. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Laryngeal Deletion rule preceding a-Epenthesis is yet another phonotactically motivated rule to avoid complex clusters which Rasmussen also explains was first discovered by Monsieur de Saussure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm adding the second -i- to be phonotactically consistent and to represent the glide /j/. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And sunami's a perfectly phonotactically possible English word. ❋ Unknown (2004)

- have been misunderstood as /mχadu/, been borrowed as such directly into PIE (as opposed to Pre-PIE), and then (very quickly, I imagine) the phonotactically forbidden (and cross-linguistically rare!) ❋ Unknown (2008)