Re: Con-prescriptivism
| From: | Brian Betty <bbetty@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 14:27 |
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Nik Taylor wrote: "Probably because both /n/ and /r/ are alveolar, thus it
is difficult to cause the tap AND denasalize at the same time. Either you
denasalize first, creating a /d/, or you denasalize after, causing a
nasalized /r~/ (yes, this is perfectly possible, many dialect of English
have it in words like "romantic", where the <nt> is actually /r~/)"
Which dialects? I know that the T in romantic is aspirated and dental for
me because of the preceding N. Does anyone on this list nasalise and flap
it? I'm curious!
BB
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