Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?

At 23:13 14/02/00 -0300, you wrote:
>
>And how are prenasalized stops different from nasal + stop clusters?
>
>I seem to recall a discussion about this somewhere (maybe here),
>but there must be a difference. As for me, if I'm pronouncing
>/b/ and let air through my nose, I make a sound that is quite
>like /m/, but not the same. The question is: do these nasalized
>stops contrast with proper nasal stops in any natlang?
>
It seems to be the sound I make too, and I also feel it's different from a
regualr /m/. It has a 'stop' quality that /m/ lacks, and that's why I
called it a nasalised stop.

I don't know if there is any natlang that has those kinds of stops however.
I don't find this completely unlikely though.

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