l vs. s, sh?

[Tom Recht]

Proto-Semitic is reconstructed as having had a voiceless lateral  
phoneme (or even two, plain and emphatic), which became [s] or [sh] in  
the daughter languages. I don't know if there's a consensus on this  
reconstruction, though. In any case, I would think the change [l] >  
sibilant often involves a voiceless lateral stage.

Tom Recht
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