'small'vs .'group', therefore ., thus affricate depalatalization took place for and in any position except before * i .'to thrust open'vs .'to come', thus.
12.
Khalkha may roughly be divided into Northern and Southern Khalkha which would include S�nid etc . Both varieties share affricate depalatalization, namely, > and > except before * i, while Southern Khalkha patters with Chakhar and South Mongolia.
13.
The depalatalization of consonants preceding " e " and " ?" took place later, thus the frequency of occurrence of palatalized consonants was lowered, but it strengthened the palatalization contrast at the same time.
14.
This assumption is reasonable, because a lot of other verbs also show analogical depalatalization; but nonetheless, it is rather slender evidence, and it is not surprising that other researchers have proposed different assumptions ( e . g . that PToch " * ts?" is the expected outcome of PIE " * dhe-", with no operation of Grassmann's Law ).
15.
Then, later, / ? / depalatalized in non-initials before another consonant positions ( / kastYn / in Standard German versus / ka?tYn / in Swiss German ), probably with the introduction of the new / s / formed via the consonant shift . I guessed it was a depalatalization in most dialects, rather than a further development of Swiss German, because of words like Fisch and loeschen ( which demands that * s palatalized at least before * k in these positions, and it seemed likely that it was in all positions rather than word-initially-plus-before-* k ).
