Sunday, September 13, 2009

consonant clusters in the onset: x or ks

xenophobe
xenolith
xanthene
xi

x = ks, which is not permitted in the onset; so, /k/ gets deleted. /s/ gets vocied, thereby becoming /z/
Posted by blaoism at 10:21 PM

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