Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Before consonants
> > Italian really has only one nasal, which is always homorganic: [m]
before
> > [p] or [b], [+] before [f], [n] before dentals, [N] before velars. T=
his
> > works even across word boundaries:
>
> I believe Spanish does this too?
Sure. Only one coda nasal which will close the PoA to the next consonant=
or
realized as dental/alveolar in final positions, then
=E1lbum is ['alBun]
enfriar is [eF'f4jar] (where /F/ is m hook: labiodental nasal)
un barco is [um'barko]
un carro is [uN'karro]
> In Lune^, which I described a while back, I'm considering having that
> assimilation PLUS syllabic nasals, so that "un" has evolved to /n=3D/,
> which is homorganic with the following word, i.e., "un poco" would be
> something like [m=3D'poko]