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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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In this paper we want show that the historical palatalization of [n]
and the assimilation of [j] to form a nasal palatal sound [ɲ]
is nowadays incomplete. The results of our experiments seem to show
that there are still some remainings of the semivocalic sound [j].
We have observed that a little increase of the first and the second
formants and a progressive growth of the global intensity appear at
the end of the nasal structure in the realization of [ɲ].
We have also appreciated that if the nasal formant (F2a) exists, it
disappears in the beginning of the rising of the second formant. In
the cases in which it does not disappear, it also undergoes a frequency
increase.
Bibliographic reference. Alonso, M. Cuevas (2003): "Notes on the historical palatalization and assimilation of [j] in the nasal alveolar consonant [n] in Spanish", In ICPhS-15, 3041-3044.