Re: mu for [N] (was: Koryak Vowel harmony)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 22, 2005, 19:24 |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:48:33 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> not all varieties of English have phonemic /N/;
Eh? There are varieties where "bang" and "ban" are homophonic?
(homophonous?) Or "sing" and "sin" are homophonous or, at best,
differentiated by the *vowel* rather than the final consonant?
That's the first I've heard of that, though I'd be interested to learn
more. Where are such Englishes spoken that do not have /N/ as a
separate phoneme, and what do they merge it with? (I'm guessing /n/.)
Unless they're being *really* contrary and have merged it with
/h/...what with complementary distribution and all that...
> even to some L1 anglophones, [N] is a 'modification of n'.
And a lot of people have difficulty understanding "'ng' as in
'singer', not as in 'finger'".
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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