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Re: Emphasis allophonies?

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Thursday, September 16, 1999, 19:19
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From: Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
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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=]).