Re: What could /s/+/h/ become?

I know the terms 'rising' and 'falling' are in use for diphthongs (e.
g. /wi/ rising, /uj/ falling), but I see that they are also in
use for
consonant clusters? I guess that stop+fric is rising, and fric+stop is
falling?

About your question: my first guess was [C], but now I'd
definitely go for [h].
(I must say that I interpret [C] as a purely
palatal sound, while I normally pronounce the sound in German 'ich',
which is often transcribed as [C],  more like palato-velar).

Greets,
Rene (watch the Reply-To)


>----Oorspronkelijk bericht----
>Van:
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>Datum : 24/08/2005 12:05
>Aan: <CONLANG@LISTSERV.
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>Onderw: Re: What could /s/+/h/ become?
>
>Hi!
>
>Thanks for
all the replies.  I'll give you some more constraints on
>the
phonotactics:
>
>  - no geminates (excludes [s:])
>  - no postalveolars
>  - no velar fricative (but it seems it was there in older language
>    and now replaced by [X]).
>  - metathesis often occurs, so you
don't need to stick too
>    closely to the order.
>  - clusters have
strictly falling-rising sonority, so no
>    fricative-fricative or
stop-stop, only fric-stop-fric and
>    the like.
>
>Further, s > h
already happens in some sandhi, so I like plain [h].
>Anyway, s > t
also happens in front of fricatives and th > T also
>happens, so I
found [T] a funny option, but a weird one. :-)
>
>Still, I'd be happy
if you have more suggestions.
>
>And any ideas about longer clusters?
>
>    psh >               pT  ?
>        > *sph  > *sf > tf  ?
>
>**Henrik
>