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Frequency counts (and probability) of /s/ & /ʃ/ and /s/− & /ʃ/−consonant clusters in German and French (lexical databases based on IDS corpora), calculated in word-initial positions.
| Uniphone | Biphone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German | French | German | French | ||
| /s/ | 2 (0.0012) | 411 (0.0748) | /st/ | 1 (0.0006) | 18 (0.0035) |
| /sp/ | 0 (0) | 11 (0.0021) | |||
| /ʃ/ | 142 (0.0855) | 139 (0.0253) | /ʃt/ | 44 (0.0266) | 2 (0.0004) |
| /ʃp/ | 26 (0.0157) | 3 (0.0006) | |||
