Richard:
>However, the flood of mere loanwords can induce phonological
>changes.
This is true of French as well since retroflex "r" can be heard in English
loans such as "leader". In Canadian French, at least, it is pronounced
/lidR/ with the retroflex /R/ of English, not the native uvular approximant.
Even English has nasal vowels amongst those who choose to incorporate
them into their native speech. Things like "double entendre" or "genre".
= gLeN
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