Abstract
Elect ropalatographic and acoustic data for the fricative clusters /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ and the single fricatives /s/ and /ʃ/ in Eastern Catalan reveal that, while /sʃ/ undergoes regressive assimilation, /ʃs/ blends into an intermediate fricative or exhibits a twotarget realization. On the other hand, acoustic data for /ʃs/ in Western Catalan show that /s/ may assimilate to preceding /ʃ/ or undergo blending or a two-target realization depending on speaker and prosodic condition (no data are available for /sʃ/ in this dialect). Duration values for the two fricative clusters suggest that the assimilated outcome of /sʃ/ shortens down to the length of /ʃ/. A production-based account of the two sequences /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ in Catalan and other languages is proposed.
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