Re: French verb conjugation: "je harcele"? or "je harcelle"?

On 2008-03-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

I never learned "un" as rounded. The four French nasals are <un> [@],
<in> [&], <an> [a], and <on> [o].

I was taught four distinct nasal vowels too, but "in the field" I
found that "parlons" and "parlant" were indistinguishable, and the
French people I asked about it said something like "We pronounce those
the same these days."

That was in Picardy, however, and I think the situation is different
in the south and in Quebec, for example.


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