Re: Syllable-Initial /N/
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 17:23 |
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At 08:53 1.4.2003 -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>Initial [N] isn't at all exotic. But I can't speak for others here, since
>my L1 is filled with these things. :-)
Fifteen years of exposure to Tibetan can only make me agree with you!
FWIW my L1 is shock full of supposedly exotic retroflexes.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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