0 a consonant in which air escapes only through the nose: --
In English, "m" and "n" are nasal consonants.
Overall, the presence of the final vowel in the responses correlated positively with the amount of spectral energy contained in the release of the nasal consonant.
He assumes instead that the nasal consonant always has a presence in the surface representation.
The non-parsing of the nasal consonant in these cases can be attributed to the absence of a source of vital place features.
In other words, to be licensed by a syllable, a nasal consonant must have place features.
However, we cannot rule out the possibility that the nasal consonant codas and tonal feature allow for cohesion between the vowel and final consonant.
Licensing and alignment 465 contention that it is represented in the form of a postvocalic nasal consonant.
Their responses indicate that they do not infer from the nasality of a vowel that it is followed by a nasal consonant.
The alternative adopted in this paper rejects the claim that the nasal consonant is completely deleted.
