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Re: WC8 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Thursday, November 20, 2003, 3:18
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:35:42 -0500, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

> JS Bangs wrote: >> It's rather curious that CN is disallowed, since CN is commoner cross- >> linguistically than NC, which you show above. In the languages that I >> know > of >> with initial NC sequences they are treated as monophonemic prenasalized > stops. > > Agreed. At least fricative+nasal is fairly easy, f/v+n, m,J,N-- s or > S+...-- > ts or dz+....-- x/G+ doesn't come tripping off the tongue, but symmetry > might demand them. Or not. :-))) >
Sequences like /Gg/ (or more correctly like /GgV/) come tripping fairly easily off of my tongue, and it's my language so *there* ;-) Don't forget that all compounds must be homorganic (or roughly so in the case of /f/ ~ /v/ and /m/). That makes things somewhat easier, doesn't it? Paul