Re: THEORY: Re : THEORY: Semivowels

        Thanks to all who replied.
        My main doubt was if semivowels in Portuguese (like in a=e7=e3o
[as'~a~w] and c=e3ibra [k'~a~jbra]), being nasalized, were really
semivowels or just short vowels. Now I see they are.

> >From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
>
> > there is another beautiful one : [=fc]
        That's a beautiful one.

> > the surest way to get S nazalised is to nazalise
> > the V after :
        I think it's easier if the vowel comes before.


Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> [...] Even
> languages that have phonemic nasal vowels don't behave like that (in
> Portuguese, the occurrence of /n/ or /m/ always nasalise the vowel
> before, for example).
        Not always. "Amor" doesn't have a nasalized "A" (but "amar"
does). There are a couple more words that follow this. Also, in some
dialects, vowels don't nasalize before a "n" that's followed by another
vowel (caneta =3d <kan'eta>, not <k~an'eta> as in normal speech), or only
some nasalize (banana =3d <ban'~ana>, not <b~an'~ana>, as in normal speech)=
.

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