Re: Labiodental nasals
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 23, 2004, 15:52 |
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> English in 'emphasis' in some dialects, as far as I know.
I don't have assimilation to [F] in "emphasis", which goes the other
way: the /f/ assimilates to [p\]. I do have [n] -> [F] assimilation in
e.g. "confer".
But that's not what I was asking about; the brooding about assimilation was
just what led me to ponder my actual quesation, which I guess I didn't phrase
very well, so let me try again:
What natlanguages have /F/ as a distinct phoneme, contrasted with /m/ and/or
/n/? Do any contrast it with both?
-Mark
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