Re: Writing French without accented characters?
- From: "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx" <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Nov 2005 10:23:05 -0800
Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> I don't think any pronunciation variety of French has an audible
> difference between 'parle' and 'parlent'. Either their is a strong [@]
> (south, and perhaps now increasing in Paris), or not (fast speech,
> otherwise), but if so, equally in both words.
> So as LSD says, the shwa that is or isn't present is just a
> peculiarity of final consonants, not a phoneme in its own right.
I've seen the vowel in <le> described as [l@]. If the description is
correct, is [@] not a phoneme?
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