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

Shreyas Sampat wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2005, at 3:37 pm, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > For creating S11's sandhi, I need an idea to what /s/ + /h/ could
> > mutate.  I'm somewhat stuck and don't seem to have good ideas.
>
> Hm, maybe it could devoice the environment... /sh/ is a pretty
> strongly unvoiced cluster. It'd probably assimilate them to /s:/ in
> the process as well.
>
And maybe it could just > /h/, given that s > h is a very common sound
change. s_h would be even more prone to do that I think.  (My first thought
was, > T )

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