Re: OT: Junk
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 22:58 |
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Hi!
"Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...> writes:
> That /N/ can be rendered nasalized is totally playing with my head --
> I've never experienced this on either side of the strait. Could you
> give an example?
Actually, I came up with the impression of /N/ being often realised by
nasalisation in Mandarin without reading anything about it but by
merely hearing Mandarin. An example was a bus driver in Taibei whom I
did not understand when he announced 'AIRPORT!' as 'ji cha~'.
**Henrik
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