Re: Woody or tinny?

In a message dated 5/21/01 3:07:28 PM, rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:

<<  something [sV?m=] to do with a following nasal.

Yeah, I've noticed that too. It can even replace /d/! (<didn't> == [dI?I~]) >>

    I think I've heard [sV?n=] sans [m] more often that with an [m].  And it
would go hand-in-hand with the rule in English that [t]>[?]/__[n=], as in
Latin [l&?n=], Manhatten [m&nh&?n=], fatten [f&?n=], and so forth.  And I
think the nasalized vowel allows for the [t] to be glottalstoperized in
"didn't".

-David