Re: Conlang baby-talk

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@F...> wrote:

> Well, remember the term "gnangnan"? Laetitia Casta is probably the
archetype of
> its definition ;)))) (now I don't dislike her, especially since she comes
from
> the same neighbourhood as me ;)))) . But her "cutey-cutey" way of talking
can
> be annoying...).
Probably cause she's a babe.  I find it quite endearing.  =D

Surely you wouldn't find it that annoying if a cute *guy* talked that
way?  Or are you into machos?  ;-)



> Well, my own consonants don't have the slightest touch of palatalisation,
and
> I've never heard French consonants being pronounced even slightly
> palatalised...
Then you haven't seen "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie" (sorry, no
accents on this freaking Unix keyboard...).  They pronounce "Lady Di"
as [led_ji'd_ji], bordering on [ledz_ji'dz_ji].

Also, I remember the cutie-cute Aurelie from my language studies in
California, who spoke le plus gnangnamment possible, and used to add
a voiceless palatal fricative release after stressed final i's.  For
instance, her name would be something like [ore'liC].  ;-)



> Maybe it's a way for you not to be tempted to aspirate them?
Swiss German has unaspired voiceless stops, so they're not a problem
to me.  Voiced ones like [g] are unaspired by default.

I'll try to record some samples of my "gare" when I get home.



-- Christian Thalmann

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