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

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 10:13
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