Re: French r

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Mark J. Reed :
>
>
> >Anyway, I suspect that examination of the various dialects of French
> >would reveal allophones of /r/ that, while all uvular, range from
> >approximants through fricatives to trills.
>
> Wrong. As I already said, the uvular trill allophone existed only in Paris
> and has now completely disappeared. On the other hand, quite a few French
> dialects have an *alveolar* trill or flap for r. They are mainly dialects
> of the Mediterranean coast (listen to any Marseillais talk, and you won't
> hear a single uvular sound ever! :))) ).
I read somewhere that the Swedishified pronunciation of "La Marseillaise" -
something like [mas`El'jE:s(En)] (where the paranthesized bit is the Swedish
definite article, of course) - sounds, to Frenchmen, very Marseillais. Any
truth to this?

                                                    Andreas

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