Re: speech impediments

And Rosta wrote:
>John Cowan (May 20):
>> IIRC, Livagian has a word you can say which changes how voiceless
>> nasals are rendered until you say it again.  This is necessarily
>> for people with colds.  (I forget what the alternative rendering
>> is).
>
>That was the situation for a brief while, but the problem
>subsequently evaporated when the voiceless nasals were reanalysed
>as, phonologically, sequences of voiceless nonsibilant fricative
>plus following homorganic nasal. So, for example, /fm/ can be
>realized by a voiceless [m] (nareally fricated), or by [f(@)m],
>/khqx/ by a voiceless nasalized lateral click or by [x(@)||^N], and
>so on. When you have a cold, you just use the viable allophony.
>
This problem has also evaporated for Boreanesian. I dropped the
phonemic contrast of slack and stiff phonation on the segmental
level and extended it to the suprasegmental level (the situation I
originally had). So now, nareally fricated voiceless nasals are
allophones of regular nasals which directly follow a morpheme with
slack phonation. So, like Livagian, when the speaker has a cold, the
speaker simply uses the viable allophone.

So for example, in the sequence /N@mi@h + nijh/ "this coral", the
segmental sequence h + n is normally pronounced as a preaspirated
nareally fricated voiceless nasal. But when the speaker has a cold,
its simply a preaspirated voiced nasal.

-kristian- 8-)