Re: Emphasis allophonies?

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From: Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:10 AM
Subject: 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).
I've noticed that when people emphasize English words which use [4]
(alveolar tap) or [d] for /t/, they sometimes use [t] (as in <little>,
usually ["lIdl=] but emphasized ["lItl=]).