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

If anyone can tell me, what the HECK does all that mean?
I'm normally pretty good at following advanced conversations on the
list, but that's just gibberish.
-M

Roger Mills wrote:
>
> John Cowan wrote:
>
> >Michael Poxon scripsit:
> >
> >> Surely all these instances are just assimilation of a nasal to a
> following
> >> homorganic stop, which explains why the versions with -m don't work;
> >
> >But they *do* work in Italian; the nasal is forced to be homorganic to
> >the stop no matter what the nasal's nominal place of articulation is.
>
> 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/,
> which give some speakers problems, i.e. "álbum ~ álbun", or dialectally even
> "álbung".
>
> Buginese, with only /-N/ assimilates it to a following vd. stop.
>
> And Engl., like Indonesian, has contrastive final nasals (more functional
> load?), so we have to be more careful about assimilating them......(?)
>
> Nonetheless, Engl. fast speech rules seem clearly to allow assimilation,
> though /m/ does seem to be a little resistant, with a tendency to insert a
> [p] rather than assimilate--
> comfort ['cVmpfR=t] rather than ['cV__f@rt] (I disremember X-Sampa lab-dent.
> m)

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