Re: PHONO: Nasal assimilation (was: An incongruent orthography:
From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
Date: | Thursday, April 11, 2002, 5:36 |
Tim May Writes:
So if it's possible to have words in the language
that differ only by their final nasal, like ham and hang in English,
you'd expect there to be some resistance to assimilation, as otherwise
you couldn't tell what the word was.
Yes, but let's use /r&m/ "ram" and /r&n/ "ran" since, my dialect changed /&/ before
/N/ to /e/ (or something close to it. Like: /h&m/ "ham" /heN/ "hang"
Elliott Lash.