Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 5:35 PM
> On 2009-02-21 06:04, david_russell_watson wrote:
>
> > "... A similar rule operates in Pawnee,
> > a Caddoan language spoken on the other side of the
> world,
> > though the details are different; see Douglas R.
> Parks,
> > A grammar of Pawnee (New York 1976: Garland), pp. 14,
> 42-3)."
>
> See a detailed description of this rule in Wichita (related
> to Pawnee):
>
> https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/pdfs/01-deguchi02.pdf
>
> I would interpret the affrication of dental stops in *TT
> (as well as
> *TK) clusters as phonetic reinforcement, preventing their
> realisation as
> unreleased stops and so increasing their contrastivity
> ([CORONAL] being
> the least salient place of articulation in terms of
> auditory cues such
> as vowel-consonant transitions). Note t > ts in the High
> German Shift
> and the affricated allophone of /t/ (in "strong"
> positions) in many
> accents of English.
>
> Piotr

Where do English speakers do that?
Bonus Dumb Question: Is Slavic /s^c^, s^t/ somehow related to this phenomenon?