Re: French phonetics

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Petr Hrubis <petr.hrubis@...> wrote:

> I should have added: which syllables can be stressed in Italian and
> how can the irregular stress be marked in the orthography? ;-)

I think I'm not mistaken if I state that ALL syllables can be
stressed in Italian, and that the irregular stress can be ALWAYS
marked by an accent in the orthography.

> I doubt every learned French speaker would render Francesco with
> the [s] instead ot [ts^]. That's a claim that would have to be
> backed up by a statistical survey.

In this particular case, I assure you *I* am a statistical-survey-
walking. I have met hundreds or thousands of French persons during
my life, and the best they could do was to pronounce Francesco as
[fRANs^e'sko] (with [s^] as in Chinois).

Best,
fran'ts^esko