Re: Exit Methkaeki, (re)enter Mephali

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:38:19AM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > 1) All stops and frics in a cluster assimilate to the voicing of the
> > one closest to the word's stressed syllable.
> > 2) /T D/ turn into [t d] before fricatives.
>
> Just trying to see what comes naturally, I find a tendency to assimilate
> the POA for stops before fricatives when they're not colocated, e.g.
> /tf/ -> /pf/.
Well, Tairezazh being the language of words like _kstrol_ and _zgzangz_, I
couldn't be having that happening! :) There aren't any examples in the lexicon
(yet), but things like /tf/ should be valid codas in Tairezazh.

                                                    Andreas