Omaha nasal vowels

[Koontz John E]

John E. Koontz
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Catherine Rudin wrote:

> John K. wrote:
> >  I'm not sure I could always hear a difference in aN and a
> >after n, e.g., between na= 'by heat, spontaneously', naN- 'by foot'.
> >There is a clear contrast between things like ma 'snow' and maN 'arrow,
> >bullet'.
>
> The place where I find it hard to hear nasality is i/iN after nasals -- to the
> point where I've doubted a contrast actually exists.  (My ear isn't THAT bad.)
> Does anyone have clear examples of an audible contrast between ...ni... and
> ...niN... ?
> Catherine
>