Re: Emphasis allophonies?

Carlos Thompson wrote:
>
> One of the features of Hangkerimce is the existence of many allophonies,
> many of them are caused by sourronding sounds and accentuation, but also
> there are allophonies caused by the emphasis a morpheme has in the speech.
>
> Are there any natural language that has this kind of allophony present?
>
        I think I can find a (very restricted) example in French. As you may
know, the difference between the front 'a' and the back 'a' has
disappeared in spoken French during the last 20 years. But I think that
when a word is emphasized, the difference appears again, especially to
differentiate homophones (as Steg pointed for Hebbrew) like 'pattes' and
'pa^tes'. I've heard it some times, but I think it is disappearing too
(give us 5 or 10 years and it will have completely disappeared).

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