Re: Phonological questions, bunch 2

Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:
> > op
> > > > even if I have never heard of nasal vowels developing from something
> > > > else than oral vowel + nasal stop.
> > >
> > > Nor have I.
> >
> > ISTR recall hearing of an Indonesian language in which a nasal stop caused
> > all
> > _following_ nasalizable sounds to be nasalized.
> >
> I recall a study of Madurese (written in the 60s or early 70s) where
> something like that was detailed-- it involved a _nasal_ /m n N (ñ?)/
> causing nasalization of subsequent vowels, up until a stop intervened. I
> don't recall whether nasal+stop clusters also caused it.  I've also seen
> somewhere, a similar study on Bahasa Indonesia (possibly in the Rutgers
> Optimality archive).
By "nasal stop" I mean a simple nasal, such as [n], not a nasal+stop cluster,
such as [nd].

                                                            Andreas