Re: Critique sought
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 18, 1999, 23:15 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Why do you think? I'm pretty sure that there are quite a few systems
> out there with just an [m]. I've seen no hard evidence linking one or
> the other as more likely.
What I meant was that, AFAIK, /n/ is more common in one-nasal langs than
/m/
> Well, that's not free variation. Free variation is, well, free :)
Well, what do you call it, then? It's not conditioned by phonological
environment, and if there's truly no "free variation", in the sense that
it's not fully random, then why not use the term for that kind of
variation?
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