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Re: USAGE: Louis? C'est lui

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, February 14, 2000, 9:21
At 00:15 06/02/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >I'm glad someone else has mentioned this, because I've had a bear of a time >convincing other certain non-native speakers of French I know that this >phenomenon exists. I, myself, (a non-native) do this quite regularly; after >/i/ and /y/, a /C/ - after /u/, though, more of a bilabial "f" (forgot the >IPA) à la japonaise. >
Now that you talk of it, I'm now aware of something like that happening in my pronunciation. But I wouldn't call that a fricative added at the end of a word, but more the fact that when a word stops with a vowel, my breath tends to continue after the vowel, with the same articulation as the vowel but without any *strength* (something like a colored [h]). That would explain why /i/ and /y/ would be followed by a palatal 'fricative release', whereas /u/ would be followed by a bilabial 'release'. Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org