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Re: Questions about Schwa and Stress

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, October 14, 2001, 19:18
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:21:21 EDT David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
writes:
> In a message dated 10/14/01 3:03:45 AM, alrivera@ALUMNI.SOUTHERN.EDU > writes: > << 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? > > -David >
- I dunno... my half-Peninsular half-Puertorriqueño roommate from two years ago would pronounce all of his word-final /n/'s as [N]'s. He also dropped his word-final /d/'s. -Stephen (Steg) "gonads and strife"