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On 8/9/07, MorphemeAddict@hidden.email <MorphemeAddict@hidden.email> wrote: > In a message dated 8/8/2007 7:05:21 PM Central Daylight Time, larrysulky@hidden.email writes: >> I find "sg" and "zk" equally difficult. > For me too. I get back assimilation in both cases to "zg" and "sk", resp. I find /sg/ and /zk/ possible, but more difficult than the same-voicing versions. (I think I tend to lengthen the fricative when trying to pronounce the distinct-voicing clusters, so something like /s:ga/, /z:ka/.) I would recommend against using these clusters of different voicing in an IAL such as Ceqli. In re-reading the threads of some months ago about Ceqli phonotactics I find that not as much was definitively decided as I thought I remembered. Rex said there would be no syllable-final clusters and no syllable-initial clusters of more than two consonants, but he didn't, I think, say anything very specific about which consonants can cluster at the beginning of a morpheme and how. Maybe it's time to revisit the issue and make more definite decisions. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry