On 05-01-17 12:15, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
> But one usually finds a glide in place of an etymological nasal in
> such alternations, not vice versa. :)
That's what a blocked dose does to etybological dasals, duzzed it? In my
dialect, the normal realisation of the Polish nasal vowels is
diphthongal with increasing nasality, i.e. with a moderately nasalised
vowel as the starting point, followed by a fully nasal glide. The latter
is phonetically a nasalised labial-velar approximant [w~] (or,
optionally, palatal [j~] before palatal fricatives). Similar
realisations are common cross-linguistically (ask Joao). They easily
turn into Vi/Vu-type diphthongs under... er... rhinopathological conditions.
Piotr