Re: Syllable-Initial /N/
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 9:20 |
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En réponse à Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:
> >
> > In Japanese, /g/ is very often pronounced [N]. It seems to be very
> common.
>
> Really? I've never noticed that.
>
Well, I did ;)) . Actually, it's even the standard Japanese pronunciation
that /g/ is [g] at the beginning of a word and [N] otherwise. It's a remnant of
the time when the Japanese voiced stops were actually prenasalised.
Note that [N] is slowly losing ground and more and more Japanese people just
pronounce [g] in any position. Still, from what I've heard, [N] for /g/ is
still pretty common. You'll still need a generation or two before this
allophone disappears.
Christophe.
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