Re: YAEPT French loans (was: 'out-' affix in conlangs?)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 18:42 |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:33 PM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> But you mustn't lump all anglophones together. The Merkans do consistently
> give final stress to French loan words
See? :)
> even if they mangle the vowels, e.g. 'lingerie' almost invariably seems to have
> final stressed [e] or
> [ej].
Yup. [YAEPT alert!] I assume y'all put an [i] there. What about
the first syllable? We tend to pronounce that as [an] (vs. French
[&~], I suppose...)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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