Re: Initial /sp/ vs. /ps/ (Was: Comparison of philosophical languages)

> ¿Como el estado actual en español, especialmente?
Well, in the vocabulary derived from Latin, you don't have word-initial
s-stop clusters, unless there's some e-dropping that I'm unaware of.

> I guess you're thinking of affricates when you say that.
No.  /ps/ isn't an affricate.  /ts/ may be depending on the language.

> while the fricative-before-stop beginning is confined to the /sk/,
> /sp/, /st/ group in longtime-English words (although Yiddish and
> Italian give us more recent examples with "spiel", "schtick",
> "sgraffito" and other /S/ and /z/ words).
So, the prohibition on s-stop clusters is no longer active, apparently.
:-)

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