Re: Query: Two N sounds in a row mean what?

mirror wrote:
On page 353 of...
Expressive Japanese: A Reference Guide for Sharing Emotion And
Empathy, Senko K. Maynard, University of Hawaii Press, March 2005
ISBN: 0-8248-2889-5
is this line...
"Are nan te itten no."
(What are you saying there?)

The portion "itten no" is contracted from of is a compression of
what?

"-te-ru" goes "-te-n" before "-no" in casual conversation. (The English
translation all but gives it away!)

I don't think anyone would say "nan-te itte in-no," but there are lots
of cases where "rV" gets "n"ified. "Odamannasai," "wakannai," ettosetora.

Bart
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