En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>Swedish has this funny combination of stress accent and two word tones, known
>as acute and grave accent. Unfortunately, I'm essentially tone-deaf, and can't
>really describe it (I rely mostly on context to tell the minimal pairs
>apart, 'mafraid). "Marseljäsen" should have acute, I believe, which ought to
>mean the pitch peaks on the stressed syllable.
Then it woul be like the Marseillais pitch.
>Some dialects would, of course, have [R\s] instead of [s`], but while that
>might sound more French, from what you say it shouldn't sound more
>Marseillais.
Indeed :))) .
Christophe Grandsire.
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