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Re: OT: Nasalization of French Vowels

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, December 4, 2003, 21:47
En réponse à David Peterson :


>Thanks everyone for your input. A question for Christophe: Does this mean >that, in French, nasalized vowels and nasal codas are in complimentary >distribution
Yes. You don't have nasal vowels followed by a nasal coda, at least not in Standard French or most accents I know.
>? That is, you can have: > >[bO] >[bO~] >[bOn] > >But never: > >[bO~n]
Exactly, as long as you don't include some Southern accents which have [bO~n] instead of [bOn].
>If so, that's very interesting. > >Thanks!
You're welcome! :) Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.