> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Eric
Christopherson
> > Ah, but _n isn't nasalization; it's nasal release, which
applies to
> > consonants, not vowels. IME only fhe negative sound
> routinely gets
> > the
> > nasal treatment, something like ['V~?_n.V~:], which leads to
variant
> > spellings like "hunh-uh".
> >
> > -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>
> I'm not a phonetician but it appears to me that the
affirmative can
> also be nasalized, though it seems more noticeable somehow in
the
> negative. Also, when nasalization is present, either vowel, or
both
> vowels, can be nasal. IME. I think.
Yes, I notice a nasalization too, but it seems to be much
lighter than the negative form.