Re: PHONO: Nasal assimilation (was: An incongruent orthography:

Roger Mills scripsit:

> That's true, but then, the only normal final nasal in Italian is /n/ (unless
> memory is failing again).  Same in Spanish, despite a few loan in /-m/,
Well, there are lots of words in -mp-, -mb-, and -mm- in Italian,
unlike Spanish.  You can analyze these as underlying /np/, /nb/
if you want, but it seems unnatural: certainly -mm- and -nn- are
distinct.

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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