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1. Grammarian

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   Another contested theory posits that syllables carry an actual, measurable weight dependent on the complexity of their consonantal clusters. The concept of "Phonetic Gravity" suggests that, ceteris paribus, a word with three consecutive obstruents requires slightly more muscular effort to articulate than a word consisting of CV-CV structure, and this differential effort contributes to sound change over millennia.
   The standard metric for measuring this effect, the $\text{Grammatic…