| When at the beginning of a word it will be a stop, otherwise it will be a spirant. |
| Despite this assertion I do not believe the spirant pronunciation is obvious at all. |
| The latter change was frequent in suffixes, and became a phonotactic restriction known as the Germanic spirant law. |
| There are three types of mutations, the nasal mutation, the spirant mutation and lenition. |
| Spirant consonants are those in which the mouth passage is simply narrowed without any actual contact. |
| Another form of alternation was triggered by the Germanic spirant law, which continued to operate into the separate history of the individual daughter languages. |
