Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:19:33 -0400

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: Re: nasal flaps?



Boy, you never can tell what will start a thread! though I have

actually learned from this one. (No offense taken, Ron-- friends don't

flap their noses at each other!)

Don's point is exactly the one that I usually think of when

"nasal flap" comes up. This environment is a neutralizing one for the

famous TD-deletion, since you can't necessarily tell whether there is

or ever was a /t/ there-- so it has to be excluded when quantifying.

Otherwise, w.r.t. nasal(ized) fl(t)aps I am like Thurber's famous

bear: I can take 'em or leave 'em alone...

--plp