Re: Comparison of philosophical languages

James Landau wrote:
> You remind me of my little brother! Except he always did it at the
> beginning of words. When Alex was three or four, he used to say
> "psot" instead of "spot" or "psace" for "space".
Well, stop-fricative sequences are more natural at the beginning of a
syllable than fricative-stop sequences.  PIE just happened to be an
oddball that allowed s+stop sequences in initial positions (and a number
of IE langs have lost those /sk/ /sp/ /st/ clusters, often thru
epenthesis)

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