Re: THEORY: vowel harmony [was CHAT: Another NatLang i like]
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 28, 1999, 13:51 |
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Matt Pearson scripsit:
> (We have a less interesting kind of nasal spread in English, where
> a vowel becomes nasalised if followed by a syllable-final nasal
> consonant.)
And some of us, like say me, have nasality in *every* vowel. In fact,
I know whether I'm talking English or some other language by whether
I'm using pervasive nasality or not.
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