Re: THEORY: Semivowels

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Interesting... what English words do you pronounce with [j_0]? I've nev=
er
> heard of it.
Words like "human", "huge", etc., which have /h/ followed by /ju/, thus
"human" =3D [j_0um@n]  (note: I wasn't thinking of those words in my last
response).

In my many attempts at Future English, I've always projected that
evolving to /C/, so /j_0um@n/ --> /Cum@n/, which later becomes /S/, thus
/Sum@n/ (which subsequently becomes /Sumn=3D/, then /Sum/ or /Sun/ by
dialect)

> Also, I tend to have problems pronouncing palatals, so I usually pronou=
nce
> Spanish <=F1> (n-tilde) by nasalizing the previous vowel and using [j] =
instead
> of the palatal nasal; thus <a=F1o> [a~jo] rather than the correct
> pronunciation of [aJo]. It sounds pretty much the same to me though.
Really?  Interesting.  To me, they sound quite distinct.  I wonder if
you're nasalizing the /j/?  So that you're making [a~j~o], because [j~]
and [J] sound, to me, similar.

> In my conlang Dhakrathat, nasalized vowels before the semivowels cause =
the
> semivowels to be nasalized too, causing them later to change to nasals,=
 i.e.
> /a~w/ -> /aw~/ -> /am/, /a~j/ -> /aj~/ -> /aJ/.
Cool.  Are the vowels still nasalized in /am/ and /aJ/?  That is, are
they [a~m] and [a~J]?

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