Fernch consonants (was Re: Conlang baby-talk)

Christian Thalmann wrote:

> *) Palatisation:  I don't know how true that is, but I find
> myself to sound much more authentic when pronouncing most
> consonants with a touch of palatisation.  My "gare" sounds more
> like [g_ja:R] than just [ga:R].  This might be a regionalism.
And Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Well, my own consonants don't have the slightest touch of palatalisation,
and
> I've never heard French consonants being pronounced even slightly
> palatalised... Maybe it's a way for you not to be tempted to aspirate
them?

I've had the same experience of French consonanls like Christian Th. :-)
I heard it both from our teachers of French (which is not the criteria,
since they were not native speakers), and from French broadcasts.
It is especially notable in syllables like /ca/, /ga/, /ti/, /di/ et sim.
Strange that a native speaker doesn't confirm it.

Yitzik
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