Kempgen, SebastianSebastianKempgen0000-0002-2534-94232019-09-192014-09-2420053-87690-923-6https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/12441The article tries to show that certain changes from Balto-Slavic to Common Slavic which are traditionally subsumed under the so-called ‘Law of Open Syllables’ and the ‘Tendency to increasing sonority’ are really just a tendency to simplify certain linguistic structures (consonant clusters, syllable and word structures). Additionally, the changes are shown as being an example of a synergetic process, i.e. a process of self-organization of language structures.deuUrslawisch, Lautwandel, Silben, Phonologie490conferenceobject