Re: French

Hi!

Israel Noletto writes:
>>[...]so I have a simple question: the final -s, how is it
>>pronounced before an initial s-?  Is it a (long) [s] or [Ss]?  That's
>>the -s s- in that phrase:
>>
>> anglófonos são
>>
>>I'd assume the rest is:
>>
>>  [toduz uz aNglOfunu(???) saU)~ buRuS]
>
> The final 's' and the initial 's' are usually pronounced as a single 's', in my
> variety (Brazilian Piauiense) and in most Brazilian varieties it's always
> pronounced as a single 's', therefore [toduz uz a~´glOfonu sa~w ´buRus] ...
Ah, thank you very much!  I had expected that since word-internal -ss-
is /s/, too, and the inter-word sandhi in Portuguese seemed like
they're just doing what's done anywhere else, too.  But you never know
and my books did not mention this case explicitly.

(Obviously, I also overlooked the nasalisation in _an_.)

**Henrik

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