Re: childish pronunciation of "Christophe"

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/.