Word-final /ɔ̃/ in Greater Poland Polish: A Cumulative Context Effect?

Abstract

An empirical corpus-based study of the likelihood of realizing the Polish nasal vowel /ɔ̃/ word-finally as [ɔm] (i.e. of 'nasal stopping') is presented. The goal was to verify whether the phenomenon exhibits a cumulative context effect, with words typically occurring in an environment favoring a particular phonetic variant showing higher rates of that variant regardless of environment. The results show that nasal stopping is more likely before stop-initial words than before words beginning in other sounds, if there is no intervening pause. Results with regard to the hypothesis that words typically followed by stops will show higher likelihood of nasal stopping, however, remain inconclusive.

Complex diachronies of final nasalization in Austronesian and Dakota

“…Polish nasal vowel ã (< Proto-Slavic *ę and *ǫ) developed into the Standard Polish ɔw̃ (and ɛw̃, 7 following a conditioned split). The diphthongized ɔw̃ further developed into ɔm in Greater Poland (Stieber 1973: 129;Baranowska & Kaźmierski 2020;Kaźmierski & Szlandrowicz 2020). In A'ingae, nasal stops in the coda position nasalized the preceding vowel and underwent deletion.…”