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Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, February 18, 2000, 23:18
Kristian Jensen wrote:
> This is an interesting case of how Christophe's being French has > hindered him from considering weakly nasalized vowels as nasal vowels.
How can nasalization be weak or strong? I'm not doubting you, I just can't figure it out in my own vocal tract. It seems to me to be something that's either there or not there. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor