Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: Fun with prenasalized stops.txt

It´s very common in Rock songs from the early seventies --Led Zeppelin, etc., who also sang the pronunciation of ¨mbaby¨ But it´s very common in US English and seems to be common in N England if the people I´ve met from there are any indication.

"Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

At 11:25:45 PM on Friday, February 2, 2007, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott<mailto:BMScott@... net>

>> At 9:17:51 PM on Friday, February 2, 2007, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:

>>> From: Rick McCallister

>>>> Doesn´t colloquial English have nasalized stops--
>>>> ¨mgonna go¨

>>> A _sequence_ of /m/-/g/ is _not_ a nasalized stop.

>> However, Rick is correct in thinking that this sequence
>> is sometimes *realized* as prenasalized /g/.

> Who realizes this sequence as a pre-nasalized /g/ (/Ng/)?

Quite a few people: it's not terribly uncommon in rapid
speech. I'm not aware of any particular geographic
distribution, if that's what you mean.

Brian

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