Pre-stopped nasal
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Pre-stopped nasals are phonetic sequences of stop plus nasal that behave phonologically like single consonant. That is, like affricates, the reasons for considering these sequences to be single consonants is in their behavior, not in their actual composition.
Pre-stopped nasals are found in some Australian Aboriginal languages and Macro-Ge languages.
[edit] Bibliography
- Eberhard, Dave (2004). "Mamaindé Pre-Stopped Nasals: An optimality account of vowel dominance and a proposal for the Identical Rhyme Constraint". SIL Electronic Working Papers.
- Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 128.