<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Joe,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>What have you heard then in these cases? If <I>nican</I>, for example, doesn't end in a voiceless nasal, are you saying that it ends in a non-nasal aspiration? Or have you heard a voiced <I>n</I> in this position? The native speakers I work with can distinguish between the sound of the final <I>n</I> in <I>nican</I> and the final <I>h</I> in <I>oncah</I>. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> John</DIV></BODY></HTML>