End of ADS-L Digest - 9 Jul 1997 to 10 Jul 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 10 Jul 1997 to 11 Jul 1997
There are 7 messages totalling 124 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. nasal flaps? (4)
 2. SMELT/SMELLED [was Bleach]
 3. so who tightened your velopharyngeal portal?
 4. TAKEOVER SPECIAL: Hong Kong or Hongkong?

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Date:  Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:41:55 -0600
From:  "Donald M. Lance" <engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject: Re: nasal flaps?

Nasal flap: apico-alveolar flap/tap preceded and followed by nasalized
vowels. When I say 'Atlanta' with a nasal flap, the tongue contact is more
like that of my /n/ than my /t/. The quibble might be over whether the
contact is the gesture of the /n/ or the /t/, since the "suppressed" /n/ is
realized as nasalization in the preceding vowel. Progressive nasalization
(on the vowel after the flap) might argue for total loss of the /t/,
leaving surface remnants of only /n/.