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

--- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:> 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)
The lab-dent nasal is /F/ in X-SAMPA; "regular" SAMPA
has no symbol for it. Also remember that you should be
using /k/ in those transcriptions rather than /c/. /c/
is a voiceless palatal stop, a sound which does not
occur in standard English.


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