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- From: widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius)
- Subject: Re: A question on Finnish phonology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.100529.14320@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <MASA.92Dec17173431@kulorastas.cs.tut.fi> <1992Dec18.050019.26957@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <MASA.92Dec18095008@kulorastas.cs.tut.fi> <1992Dec19.034121.243@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <MASA.92Dec20210324@kulorastas.cs.tut.fi>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:05:29 GMT
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- masa@cs.tut.fi (Ide Masahiko) writes:
-
- >rangat /raNn~at/ [ran~:at]
- >rannat /raNnat/ [ran:at]
- >rammat /raNmat/ [ram:at]
-
- >With this interpretation, the actual place of articulation of /N/
- >followed by a nasal is determined just the same way as the case
- >of plosives.
-
- As amusing as your interpretation first seems, I couldn't think of any
- reason to reject it, if it wasn't for words like 'jungmanni' [jun~man:i]
- and the poor 'magneetti' [man~ne:t:i] that was already mentioned. There
- must be some such words that are not recent loans.
-
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