Hallucinating distinctions (was New Jersey Dialects)

[Dennis R. Preston]

Big trouble. Nothing (well, almost nothing) is harder to look at
acoustically than nasal stuff. If you got a nasal mask for recording,
you can get at it, but that's only possible in a lab situation (and
the observer's paradox would be in high gear since the speaker has
got a mask on adn will ahrdly eb chatting).

dInIs

>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
>>Careful. She may be closer than you think, producing the bulk of
>>nasalization on the vowel rather than in a fully realized nasal
>>segment.
>
>So how can I explore that?
>
>Thanks,
>Bethany


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