Re: Language Difficulty
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 7:23 |
|---|
En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> I keep hearing accented French vowels as long (eg [j@tE:m]) - is there
> an
> actual tendency to prolong them, or is it just my brain being defect?
>
I don't think so. There is indeed a tendency to prolong them. Probably it's
part of the stress system of French (which anyway is accidental and
meaningless, stress in French is absolutely predictable and purely phonetic).
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr