Re: YAGPT: Carsten (was Re: Vertical script)
| From: | Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 14:00 |
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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>.
C.
*) When we have lived at the Swiss border people there called me /ka:Stn=/
as well
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