Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> AJ> if assimilation is to occur, I'd suggest /TZ/ going to [TS] or even [tS]
> AJ> (the later would be the outcome with Tairezazh assimilation rules).
>
> Could you summarize the Tairezazh assimilation rules easily?
The relevant ones are easy enough:
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.
> AJ> No real idea on /pN/, which, too me, doesn't seem trickier than
> AJ> anything else involving a syllable initial /N/.
>
> It's going from open-airstream-with-lips-closed to
> closed-airstreem-with-lips-open that makes it awkward. And again, only
> because it's within a word.
Well, if /kN/ or /pm/ are easier to you, I suppose those are the most obvious
ways for it to go.
Andreas