Abstract
Vowel nasalization for onset or coda nasal is a common phenomenon in many languages. As coda nasals belong to the rime and involve syllable timing, the interaction between nucleus vowel and nasal coda might reflect onto duration patterns. In Mandarin, coda nasal [n, ŋ] and coda glide [j,w] are in complementary distribution, while acoustic results have found a coda nasal takes a longer duration than a coda glide. Besides, with the increase in the nasality of vowels (triggered by the nasal coda), the duration of the nasal coda is correspondently longer, accompanied by the durative lenition of vowels. This demonstrates that the nasal coda starts sharing the mora (originally belonging to the vowel), with the help of vowel nasalization.
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