Prenasalized stops

[Paz B. Naylor]

Roger,

 

I am not sure if what I quote from something I have written addresses your
question.

For all it’s worth, here it is.

 

 

         ‘Prenasalisation’. 

 

                  The term, “prenasalisation” refers to the
morphosyntactic process by which nonnasal consonants are usually ‘replaced

             by their homorganic nasal  counterparts upon affixation of a
prefix with  a final velar nasal -ng [-ŋ].  At the same time, 

             the final velar nasal consonant of the prefix is usually
replaced by the nasal consonant homorganic to the initial consonant

             of the wordbase.  

                   For example: when the prefix mang-/nang-[i] or pang- is
appended to a word beginning with [p], e.g., putol ‘cut’, 

             this is what happens:

 

                         1. the final velar nasal [-ŋ] of the prefix is
‘replaced’ by the nasal   

                             consonant homorganic to the initial consonant
of the wordbase [p]:

                             mang- > mam-;  nang- > nam-;  pang-  > pam-

 

             2  the initial stop [p-] of the wordbase putol  is usually
nasalised  (i.e., ‘replaced’ by

                 its homorganic nasal consonant  /m/ :  putol  > mutol);

 

              3. mam- + mutol  > mamutol  ‘go cutting (flowers, wood,
etc.’);

                 nam- +  mutol  > namutol  ‘went cutting’ (flowers, wood
etc.);

                          pam-  + mutol  > pamutol  ‘ (instrument) for
cutting’

      

            There are cases when occurrence or non-occurrence of
prenasalisation (of the wordbase) marks a semantic distinction.  

                  For example: (a) when the wordbase  bili ‘buy’, is
prefixed with pam (< pang-),  the initial consonant [b] is retained: 

                                              pambili, (instrument/use) for
buying’. 

                                        (b) when bili  is  prefixed with
mam (< mang-) or nam < nang-), the initial consonant [b] is  ‘nasalised’: 

                                              mamili ‘go shopping’ and
namili ‘went shopping’.

 

 

It’s been a long, long time since we last communicated.

Trust all is well with you.

 

Warmest regards and best wishes, Paz

 

 

Paz Buenaventura Naylor, Ph.D. 

Emeritus: Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures 

               Program Associate, Linguistics

               Faculty Associate, Center for SSEAsian Studies

Formerly: Assistant Professor, Linguistics

               Lecturer, Teaching Fellow, Romance Languages 

               The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109

 

 

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From: an-lang-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:an-lang-bounces at anu.edu.au] On
Behalf Of Roger Mills
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:28 PM
To: an-lang at anu.edu.au
Subject: [An-lang] Prenasalized stops

 

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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[i]  This is the perfective form of mang-

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