Re: proto-romance questions
| From: | Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 16, 1999, 7:05 |
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J. Barefoot wrote:
>
> >From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
> >
> >
> > > Nasal *m*? Surely yous mean nasal *n*?
> >
> >*Palatal* n, yes. I assumed that her "palatal m" was a typo for
> >"palatal n".
> >
> >
>
> No, I meant "m".
>
> As in dormi:'re > dormie'ra >(?) /dorm~e'ra/
>
Now that I think of it (and tried it a lot), have difficulties to make
any difference between a palatal m /m~/ and the sequence /mj/. But I
think it's easier for me to raise the tongue to the palate while
pronouncing the nasal so I guess what I'm pronouncing is always /m~/ :)
. Anyway I think it's the way we French pronounce _mi_ followed by a
vowel in colloquial fast speech (like for instance in "miam miam !":
"yummy!"), so it's far from impossible. I personnally think you can go
with it, but as the palatal n is much more frequent than the m, I think
if you want to have the m~, you should have also n~.
Just my two centimes :) .
> Jennifer
>
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