From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 11823
Date: 2001-12-16
>That gets you into trouble if you try to analyse intervocalic -sC- clusters in the same way. There are sure examples of Germanic *-st- and *-sk- (< *-st-/*-sd- and *-sk-/*-sg-) contrasting with *-zd- and *-zg- (< *-sdH-, *-sgH-). I can't think of any instances of *-zb- < *-sbH-, but phonotactic symmetry requires that intervocalic *-sp- be analysed as /sp/ rather than /sb/.Right. I was thinking about initial sp- (st-, sk-) only.