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Re: Attn: Dutch speakers and/or html gurus

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 18:32
En réponse à Roger Mills :


>On the assumption that Fr. "ai" usually represents [E], non? I knew about >the "(i)lle" part,
No parentheses here. "-lle" can *only be pronounced [l] (this is not Spanish :)) ). The "i" needs to be part of the polygraph to trigger the [j] pronunciation. "Belle" can only be [bEl], not *[bEj].
> so apparently I was segmenting wrongly ai-lle [E-j]
The problem is that with this segmentation you wouldn't arrive to an [Ej] pronunciation anyway, but to [El]. That's why I didn't understand where you got that idea. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.