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

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 47226
Date: 2007-02-03

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

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

>> 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