3 Responses to “Vowel Nasalization”

1. David S. Fagan Says:
   August 9th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

   Regarding Romance languages which demonstrate phonemic
   nasal vowels, only one is listed. The following are
   omitted: Portuguese, Gascon, and Sardinian. The
   latter two are not dialects of standard French and
   Italian respectively; were dialects to be considered
   as well, several come to mind. The most recent complete
   treatment of the entire Romance family is Rodney
   Sampson, Nasal Vowel Evoluction in Romance (Oxford,1999).

2. David S. Fagan Says:
   January 15th, 2009 at 11:34 pm

   The data on Portuguese nasal vowels remains as it was when I commented on Aug. 9, 2008.
   These phonemes have be documented since the application of structuralist studies to
   Portuguese in the 1950’s; they are discussed, e.g., in one of your sources for Portuguese
   phonology (Parkinson 1988)

3. Martin Haspelmath Says:
   January 22nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm

   Sorry that Portuguese is not represented in the current sample for this feature, but it was not the contributor’s goal to include all Romance languages. The idea is to have a fairly representative set of languages from all over the world. European languages are probably somewhat overrepresented already.

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