Date:  Fri, 11 Jul 1997 19:34:10 -0400
From:  Robert Howren <howren[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EMAIL.UNC.EDU>
Subject: Re: nasal flaps?

    I haven't yet seen in the discussion of nasal flaps any suggestion
that there might be a distinctive difference between >nasalized< and
>nasal< flaps. One of the linguistic remnants of my South Midland
upbringing (northwest Georgia) in my phonology is a three-way contrast
among _batter_, with a straightforward oral palatoalveolar flap; _banter_,
with the vowel nasalized by the deleted /n/ and the rightward spreading of
the nasality feature to yield a slightly >nasalized< flap and following
syllabic; and _banner_, which has a nasalized vowel preceding a fully
>nasal< flap -- an allophone of an intersyllabic >nasal< stop. The
rightward spread of nasality, in this case as in that of >banter<,
slightly nasalizes the final syllabic.
    Any support from other South Midland speakers?

--Bob
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