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The attached sample from IJAL shows what is typographically a retroflex
hook being used to indicate nasalisation. I've been in touch with the
out-going editor, and he indicated that he had thought they were using
ogonek.
I've looked back in IJAL a little, and it appears that between 1991 and
1993 there was a change in typeface. Both before and after, a Times-like
face was used, but there are discernable differences. Apparently, the newer
face provided a retroflex hook glyph but not an ogonek glyph (or glyphs for
atomic vowel+ogonek combinations).
As I said earlier, though, IJAL wasn't the only source in which I saw
retroflex hook being used to indicate nasals: in my notes, I recorded
having seen this also in a book published by Blackwell (I think). I need to
head back to the library to look for this book again.
(See attached file: RetroflexHooks.png)
- Peter
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