Re: Exit Methkaeki, (re)enter Mephali

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, if /kN/ or /pm/ are easier to you, I suppose those are the most obvious
> ways for it to go.
I'd expect one of those to also assimilate voice and then probably
reverse (is reversal considered a form of lenition?), so I'd wind up
with /Ng/ or /mb/.  Hmm.

Of course, since my original post I've mucked around with the roots and
now "in the darkness" is simply ñuplāgæš /NU'plag.&S/.  But I still
expect to have the cluster problems elsewhere. :)

-Marcos

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