Re: Rhotics (was: Chinese Dialect Question)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 19:07 |
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En réponse à Ray Brown :
>Modern French speakers commonly use the Parisian approximant [R], but I
>have certainly heard both the uvular trilled [R\] and apically trilled [r]
>, the latter
>being a mark rural, southern speakers.
Actually, the approximant is anything *but* Parisian. The mark of a
Parisian accent until up to WWII was that they had the uvular trill [R\]
rather than the uvular approximant [R]. Nowadays, [R\] is mostly dead
though. The approximant is the mark of Northern accents rather than
Parisian accents.
Christophe Grandsire.
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