Vowel Nasality as a Sandhi-Form of the Morphemes -Nt and -Ing in Southern American

FIGURE 1. The word and as recorded on the kymograph. (All the kymograms acompanying this paper were made with mouthpiece and nasal olive; hence the upper line represents nasal vibrations, and the lower line represents buccal vibrations.) FIGURE 2. The word ant. It is plainly seen that the nasal resonance occurs only during the vowel resonance, not between the vowel and the final [t]. FIGURE 3. The sentence Don't set it [d6t set It]. Here the [t] of don't is carefully articulated. It can be seen that the phoneme [n] is not a separate consonant, but is nasality of the vowel; the nasal and buccal resonance are simultaneous. If the [n] were a tonguepoint alveolar nasal consonant, there would be nasal vibrations between the end of [o] and the implosion of [t]. FIGURE 4. The sentence Don't set it articulated naturally, so that the [t] is omitted. Omitting the [t] of don't does not leave [d6n] (see Figure 5), but [d6]

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