Re: YAGPT: Carsten (was Re: Vertical script)

Hi!

Carsten Becker writes:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:01:08 -0400, Mark Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
> >Sorry to belabor a point that has so little bearing on your actual
> >question.  But if it was at one time Car-sten, what prevented the [s]
> >from becoming [S] in accordance with the usual initial-cluster
> >phonology?
>
> Maybe it's because this name is a Northern German variety of Christian (at
> least I was told so). On the one hand, Christian is /"krIstja:n/ in
> Standard German (that's indeed /"kRIStja:n/ in the South*), and on the
> other hand, in the region beyond Hanover you don't have [St] and [Sp]
> anymore in onsets for <st> and <sp>.
It's much simpler: the /st/ is not at the beginning of a *stem*.

If you discuss dialects, there are those that have [St] everywhere and
some that have [st] everywhere.  The norm is a mix determined by
whether the /st/ is stem-initial.

**Henrik

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