`Sancho'

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:

>Nobody knows what the reason is.  All I can report is that /a/ in the
>first syllable of a polysyllable sometimes develops into /ai/, in a
>purely sporadic manner.  But I *think* this only ever happens before a
>coronal consonant, which may be relevant.

Are there any examples before a single (coronal) consonant?
Unless I'm overlooking something, all the examples seem to be
before sibilant+stop or nasal+stop clusters.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam