Omaha nasal vowels
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Aug 24 14:33:30 UTC 2000
John E. Koontz
Research Associate
Center for the Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest
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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
>
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