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Re: New Orthography & Phonology Online

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 23:10
John Cowan wrote:
> Italian uses this as an allophone of /n/ before /f/, as in "inferno", which > is pronounced [i+fermo] where + = labiodental nasal.
English uses it as an allophone of /m/, as in "emphasis" = [I+f@sIs] (my dialect), where, as above, [+] = labiodental nasal.
> 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. This > works even across word boundaries:
I believe Spanish does this too? In Lune^, which I described a while back, I'm considering having that assimilation PLUS syllabic nasals, so that "un" has evolved to /n=/, which is homorganic with the following word, i.e., "un poco" would be something like [m='poko] -- "Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." -- Joseph Wood Krutch http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor