Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:04:33 -0500

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: Re: "Atlanta" -Reply



(if this thread isn't dead...)

I thought nasals in that position were generally flapped,

making it impossible to tell whether there's an /nt/ or just /n/ from

surface evidence. The environment is stressed-vowel, NT, unstressed

vowel, or /Vntv/, and it's a generall flapping rule for American

dialects, nothing Southern or Georgian.

I've depended on this before in work without actually knowing

what the argum,ents for possible derivbations are-- since the bit

about lack of surface evidence seems clear-- but if anyone knows any

lit. on the subject I'd very much like a reference...

--peter patrick