Re: Questions about Schwa and Stress

> << Likely so.  (Actually now that I think of it that's more natural
> than [kon una]... I was wondering why mine sounded funny.) >>
>
>     Wow!  I've never heard of a vowel factoring in nasal
> assimilation!  I'm
> assuming that the [u] with the strong velar constriction is what led
> to the otherwise non-existant velar nasal.  No?
Actually, my reading in Spanish dialectology led me to believe that it
was a word-boundary thing: word-final /n/ is pronounced [N] to help
speakers identify word-boundaries in rapid speech.

However, I think there are instances of vowels conditioning the previous
consonants, though none come to mind.

Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
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