--- Danny Wier skrzypszy:
> | While Tairezazh's clusters aren't exactly georgianesque, you do get words
> | like _zgzang_ "tetragon". The other day it occured to me that I can't
> recall
> | seeing an initial cluster which features the same consonant twice
> (excluding
> | as part of a affricate like in German "Szene"). Anyone's got any examples?
> | Is there any theoretical reasons to expect that such clusters shouldn't
> turn
> | up or be rare?
>
> Don't forget Russian /StS'/, which is often simplified to [S':]. Should
> there be a word for a consonant cluster which involves flanking a
> conjsonant with the same fricative on both sides? Tairezazhism?
Similarly in Polish: _szczotka_ [StSOtka], _z'dzis£aw_ [z`dz`iswaf].
(please don't pay to much attention to the X-SAMPA I wrote here)
Jan
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