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

--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> 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.
Why couldn't you just analyze -mm- and -nn- as
underlying /nm/ and /nn/, respectively, where /nm/
assimilates to /mm/?

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