Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I know that classification, and I know that some phoneticians classify
> nasals as stops.
Actually, I don't know why I said "nasal stop", I meant to just say
"nasal"

> What I call
> "nasalized stops" are real stops, that's to say the airstream passes a
> little and then is blocked in both the oral and nasal cavities.
Then how can it be nasal if it's blocked in the nasal cavity?

> (and they are different from
> prenasalized stops, as the nasalization stays until the end of the
> consonnant).
But you just said that airflow was blocked in both oral and nasal
cavities.  How can it be nasalized if there's no nasalization?

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