Re: English Haplology and Degemination (was meaning of the Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> I wouldn't, but maybe I'm using Danish morphophonology here, according
> to which internal schwa can be elided in connected speech, but only if
> you leave enough markers that the lost vowel can be recovered by the
> listener (cf. French final schwa in the feminine).
>
> Torsten
>
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>
> French final schwa died out
> in the XVIth century,
> in the northern spoken language
>
> What do you mean ?
>
> Arnaud
>

That French schwa still exists in 'high' poetry ('la pa-tri-&'), but
it has disappeared in speech; nonetheless the French manage to
separate m. and f. in most adjectives.


Torsten