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Re: childish pronunciation of "Christophe"

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, March 14, 1999, 6:56
FFlores wrote:
> - Assimilation of the sound of the 't' to the first cluster /KR/. > Why could that be? I mean, if any of the sounds /KR/ were dental > or at least front, it would seem more likely.
Probably because of the /t/ in /kRis*t*Of/. Assimilation at a distance, so that the tongue is in the front the whole time. The same reason I, as a child, turned to "t" of "kitty" (/kIri/, where /r/ is a tap, in my pronunciation) to a /k/ as /kiki/.