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Table 19 The three-consonant cluster [k8j] is not well-formed. There is rising sonority from the stop to the fricative but, according to the sonority scale proposed for SMG (cf. 3.3), [j] is more sonorous than [6 for SMG, but there is a sonority plateau in SA (cf. 3.2). When the stop is sy/labified as coda, the secon¢ syllable starts with a two-consonant cluster that is well-formed in SMG and accepted in SA (cf. (7)) However, in the data where voice assimilation is present, there is plateau sonority between C2 and C in both languages, so the second syllable starts with a two-consonant cluster that is ill-formed in bott SMG and SA., but this cluster ({O¢]) is accepted in SMG. Cf. (24) for the clusters accepted in word-initial word-medial, and word-final position in SA and SMG.
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