Re: Treatise on consonant clusters
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 25, 2006, 18:24 |
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Philip Newton wrote:
[snip]
> What's "S"? You didn't define that. Sibilants?
>
> If so, I think Italian has this in words where Latin dis- turned into
> the morpheme s-, e.g. sbandare. (Not sure whether this is [s] or [z],
> though.)
Phonemically /sb/ - phonetically [zb] through regressive assimilation.
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