Re: French phonetics

2009/2/1 Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...>:

> --- 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.

Yes, Francesco. That's why I asked this question. Since Italian can
stress ANY syllable, there's no problem in keeping the original stress
pattern in the foreign words. Neither French, nor Czech, nor Polish
can do the same thing. This is the point.

Best,

Petr

P.S.: How do you pronounce the plentiful vowels of French and English?
Do you preserve the distinct vowel qualities? How would the learned
Italians distinguish between "bog, bug", "bag", "beg", "big" (British
R.P.)? ;-)