Re: THEORY: Semivowels
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 9, 1999, 2:50 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> Well, technically I suppose they could, because nasality is merely
> the opening up of the nasal cavity an an additional cavity for
> the resonating of the sound. But I've never heard or read about
> any language that does this.
I have, unfortunately, I can't remember the language. However, this
was, IIRC, merely a form of progressive nasalization, so that it was an
allophone, something like [kana~j~a~pa], where the rule was that
nasalization continued forward until it reached a stop.
> My dialect of English has four
> glides: /w/, /w_0/, /j/, and /j_0/
I assume you mean [w_0] and [j_0]? I don't know of any dialects that
have a phonemic [j_0], and I don't think you've said you have phonemic
[w_0], either.
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