Re: OT: Nasalization of French Vowels

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:57:04 EST, David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>
wrote:
> However, there's also these that were put forth:
>
> ? [bO~te]
> ? [bOnte]
>
> Notice that the last [O] is NOT nasalized, even though it comes before a
> nasal.   To me, it would seem like any vowel coming before any nasal
> would be *phonetically* nasalized, no matter the language.
ISTR Christophe being adamant in the past that there is a nasalization
difference between [On] and [O~].   (Tho I think at one point it was
conceded that [On] may have a very lightly nasalized [O], but certainly
not _as_ nasalized as the [O~]).

I've also read somewhere, perhaps on this list or perhaps off, that Dutch
also keeps nasals from nasalizing preceding vowels.


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