Re: OT: Junk
| From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 11, 2003, 19:40 |
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Henrik schrieb:
>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~'.
I don't want to controvert other people's experiences, and I'm not a
native speaker, but *I* don't remembering hearing this. Obviously,
one could guess from context that "ji1cha~3" was an airport. But if I
heard nasalized "cha~3" out of context, I'd more likely interpret it
as "factory" (chan3) rather than "field" or "place" (chang3). I don't
know how the natives on this list feel about this.
Kou
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