Positional Factors in the Evolution of Sardinian Muta cum Liquida: A Case Study

The aim of this paper is to identify the syllable structure that underlies structural changes involving liquids in a muta cum liquida (obstruent-liquid cluster), such as metathesis or liquid deletion. Although recent literature has accounted for the positional effects on obstruents in a muta cum liquida (e.g., lenition), this paper focuses on the other component of a muta cum liquida cluster, the liquid, and the structural conditions required for such changes to apply.