Re: Telona on the web at last

En réponse à Jean-François Colson :


>Look at http://www.chez.com/belgicismes/ and click on "Prononciation".
>Of course that's only a tendency and not everybody speak like that.
Of course :) . Nice site :) .

>E.g. in § c.: I never say [mwatSe], [dZa:p] or [tSEd] but I find difficult
>to hear the difference between the "-gn-" of "pignon" and the "-ni-" of
>"opinion".
You're not the one. I think I do, but I probably forget it in normal speech
:)) .

>And about the § d.: When I was younger (more than 15 years ago -- I'll be 28
>years old next month) I remember I said [fo~tE~nlevEk] instead of
>[fo~tEnlevEk] (Fontaine-l'Évêque, a town when I lived during 7 years (où
>j'ai vécu 7 ans)), [Z@tE~m] instead of [Z@tEm], [teknisjE~n] instead of
>[teknisjEn] (technicienne, the feminine of technicien [teknisjE~]... Is that
>a Belgian pecularity or is that predicted by some "universal"? -- I'm not a
>linguist.
It is a universal that nasality tends to spread easily. Standard French is
actually breaking that universal :)) . I know the kind of pronunciation
you're talking about. Northern French has the same :) .


>That's exactly why I sometimes pronounce the final "e".
Yep. This way you create a second syllable and restore the correct sonority
sequence.

Christophe Grandsire.

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