Re: [lojban-beginners] Phonological assimilation

[mashers <mail@mashley.net>]

On Tuesday, 16 October 2012 05:24:08 UTC+1, Pierre Abbat  wrote:
> On Monday, October 15, 2012 13:31:16 mashers wrote:
> > Am I to assume that phonological assimilation should be avoided when
> > speaking Lojban aloud?
>
> Depends on what you're assimilating. Concerning the nasals, /n/ may be 
> assimilated to [ŋ] before /g,k,x/, but may not be assimilated to [ɱ] before 
> /f,v/. Contrariwise /m/ may be assimilated before /f,v/, but not before 
> /g,k,x/.

It sounds like allophones are allowed, but one per phoneme. So [n] -> /ŋ/ is allowed, and [m] -> /ɱ/ is allowed, but [n] -> /ɱ/ is not allowed because /ɱ/ and /ŋ/ are effectively contrastive. Is that correct?

 

> One must not be too hasty to 
> be discharged from a hospital, for one would be an impatient inpatient.

Great example :) 


Thanks for all the other points you raised - I'm going to archive your post in my Lojban notes for future reference.

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