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Dear Colleagues: In another context, a friend has raised an interesting question:<br><br>(QUOTE)<br><pre>Are prenasalised consonants disfavoured as second elements of clusters? <br>That is, in languages that have both unitary prenasalised Cs [like /mb)/,<br>say], and clusters whose second member is a stop [like /lb/], are clusters<br>of the sort /lmb)/ likely to be disallowed?<br><br>(I was unsuccessful at Googling this, all I could get is discussion of<br>whether prenasalised Cs should be *themselves* analysed *as* clusters.)<br></pre>(End quote)<br><pre><br>Certainly not in the handful of AN languages I'm familiar with, but perhaps in others ???<br><br>Thanks in advance for any replies.<br><br>Roger Mills<br></pre> </body>
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