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Re: Mutations in General

From:Nihil Sum <nihilsum@...>
Date:Monday, October 21, 2002, 22:14
> >>On the deletion of the voiceless stop. There is a universal tendency to >>avoid >>nasal/voiceless stop sequences (often abbreviated *NC); this tendency is >>expressed in different ways in different languages and to different >>degrees. > >Universal? Then what about words like "ant"? Or is there something I
missed?
>:Peter
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.
>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. NS P.S. Final N in Rhean is written |nk|. When a vowel is added, the |k| reappears in pronunciation. I only did this because I didn't really like |Ng| at the time. But I think I will say now that this derived from an earlier PRONOUNCED |nk| which was reduced in the fashion above. pilonk piloN "today" pilonka ac'arad piloNkV atSVrVd "today's news" _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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