Re: NATLANG: Re: German sibilants and consonant clusters.

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...>:


> But apparently *sk went through the sequence /sk/ > /s_m x/
>  > /Sx/ > /S/, as implied by the spelling, while other
> initial sC clusters didn't lose the second member.  Note
> that Dutch, which didn't go through the HG consonant shift
> nevertheless has initial *sk > /Sx/.
What's the reason for analyzing it at /Sx/ rather than /sx/? Unless my ears have
been playing tricks on me, it's [sx]~[sX].

                                                   Andreas