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Re: Mutations in General

From:Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>
Date:Monday, October 21, 2002, 22:58
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:14:19 -0700 Nihil Sum <nihilsum@...>
writes:

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> I say the n in "ant". And in vent, went, runt, plant, restaurant. > And the N > in bank, brink, honk, and the m in lump, lamp, limp, stomp.
interesting. i say the 'n' in 'ant', 'vent', 'went', 'runt', and 'plant', but not in 'restaurant'. i also say the 'N' in 'bank', 'brink', and 'honk' and the 'm' in 'lump', 'lamp', 'limp', and 'stomp'. also, i say the 'g' in '-ng' in monosyllabic words. from what i've read, this isn't very common.
> >Muke says that his pronunciation of 'ant' actually lacks a nasal > consonant, > >and > >that nasality is expressed on the preceding vowel (if I read his > >transcription > >correctly). My own pronunciation agrees with this. > > I know exactly the pronunciation you're talking about. It does > happen, but I > wouldn't call it universal. (of course, I don't tend to call much of > anything universal) > I don't pronounce any less of an n in "bent" than I do in "bend". > BUT what happens a lot is the reduction of the final unvoiced > consonant to a > glottal stop. Hear that quite a bit: vEn? wEn? lVm? l&m? etc.
i hear that quite a bit because my brother does it (and he pronounces final 't' and 'k' as [?])
> NS
Robert Wilson (Elentirno Pereldar) (mailto:han_solo55@juno.com) ><(((> ><(((> <)))>< ><(((> ><(((> I yessessë Eru ontanë Menel ar Cemen. I yessessë ëa Quetta ar Quetta né as Eru ar Eru né Quetta. "Ananwa," eque erye, "i ilúvë ná carmë Eruva. Ilyë nati nar tanwi Erullo."