Re: Indo-Uralic?

I agree. As a former teacher in articulatory phonetics I see no problem
teaching a pupil this. The liprounding might of course assimilate a
little bit into the nasal - becoming released during the microseconds
after the onset of /n/.

It might for speakers of english be difficult to hear this liprounding
acoustically, because we are not trained to these sequences. But for a
native speaker even the smallest distinctions are possible to hear.

Jouppe

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 11:32:14 AM on Sunday, February 17, 2008, fournet.arnaud
> wrote:
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> [...]
>
> > *gWneH2 cannot exist as a word.
> > Orality must have been [guneH2]
> > or [gneH2] with [w] erased.
>
> Why? I can pronounce [gWnex], for instance. Don't forget,
> there is no [w]; [gW] is just a labialized velar.
>
> Brian
>