Re: vowels: are they necessary?

> In my L1 as spoken by my grandparents, the word for
> 'yellow' is
> [?N=:]. In my generation it has mutated into [?ui~],
> however.
>
> Also, [m=] is the negation particle both in my L1
> and in Cantonese.
>
> IMHO, all non-obstruents can conceivably be
> phonemically vocalic, esp.
> if they are voiced. Whether such sounds are
> consonantal or not depends
> merely on whether they are articulated consonantally
> or vocalically in
> a particular language's phonology. They could very
> well be both, as
> [N] and [m] are above.
>
>
What exactly is your L1? From what I can gather from
your message it seems to be a dialect (seperate
language derived from, in some cases, yes?) of
Chinese? Or am I being overgeneric, or just simply wrong?

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-The Sock

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