Re: THEORY: vowel harmony [was CHAT: Another NatLang i like]
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 25, 1999, 22:07 |
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"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> The nasalization affects _consonants_ also. It seems to me we a feature of
> nasality which spreads across a domain that effects both vowels and
> consonants (even tho some consonants 'resist' it), i.e. 'nasal spread'.
So, then, you'd define them as:
harmony: affecting only vowels
spread: affecting all phonemes
?
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