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

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