Example 25-342

stori/tori; streit/treit; stilimbat/tilimbat
stori/tori;
story
streit/treit;
straight
stil-im-bat/til-im-bat
steal-tr-prog/steal-tr-prog
story; straight; stealing
Comment:
Variety: Roper River. These words illustrate variation in word-initial consonant clusters involving an initial alveo-dental fricative /s/ - these are only used in acrolectal speech and reduced in more basilectal variants.
Type:
unknown
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982: 61. 63