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Re: French r

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 16:11
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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