From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61210
Date: 2008-11-02
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> (By the way, every serious linguistic description of French that I've read
> gives French three
> glide phonemes, /w/, /j/, and /turned-h/.)
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The Petit Robert which is the first dictionary of French edited by people
with a real linguistic background uncommittingly writes theses sounds as
sounds within [ ].
I checked this yesterday
Arnaud
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And you can point out that there is the same relationship between /W/
(consonantal ü) and /ü/ in French as there is between /w/ and /u/
and BTW, is there liasion in "les huîtres"?
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of course les Z huitres
the h is a graphic addition that had been made to distinguish vi from ui at
the time v and u still were only one grapheme.
All closed vowels of French /u/ /y/ and /i/ can all take part in diphthongs
: /u/ /y/ /i/ plus all other vowels.
Arnaud
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