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Re: OT: Nasalization of French Vowels

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 21:16
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. *Muke! -- http://frath.net/ E jer savne zarjé mas ne http://kohath.livejournal.com/ Se imné koone'f metha http://kohath.deviantart.com/ Brissve mé kolé adâ.

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