Re: Telona on the web at last

En réponse à Tristan McLeay :


>Okay, so when is a written R pronounced and when is it not?
Difficult question. In standard French, a written R is always pronounced
except on the ending -er.

>Oh, and does French distinguish between [J] and [nj]?
I actually don't know. I don't think you'd find any minimal pair. Oh, and I
meant something more like [n_j] ;)) .


>But there's obviously another deletion that causes Garnier not to have
>an [R] at the end.
But that's something else, an old deletion that happened only with the
ending -er (for R I mean. But endings in -eur, -ir, etc... have all a
pronounced R, with the exception of "monsieur", but that's an eroded word
which is an except to a lot of pronunciation rules. "Sieur", which it's
derived from, is still pronounced [sj9R]). Usually, to know how to
pronounce an ending in French, you can't take just the last letter. You
need to take the full coda and include the vowel in it.

Christophe Grandsire.

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