Prenasalized stops

[Roger Mills]

Dear Colleagues: In another context, a friend has raised an interesting question:

(QUOTE)
Are prenasalised consonants disfavoured as second elements of clusters? 
That is, in languages that have both unitary prenasalised Cs [like /mb)/,
say], and clusters whose second member is a stop [like /lb/], are clusters
of the sort /lmb)/ likely to be disallowed?

(I was unsuccessful at Googling this, all I could get is discussion of
whether prenasalised Cs should be *themselves* analysed *as* clusters.)
(End quote)

Certainly not in the handful of AN languages I'm familiar with, but perhaps in others ???

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Roger Mills
 		 	   		  
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