Re: French phonetics

From: david_russell_watson
Message: 62729
Date: 2009-02-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...>
wrote:
>
> I know that to be completely accurate it should be [dZov'an:i]
> with long [n], but most English speakers would not feel it
> necessary to be that correct unless they were speaking Italian
> itself (especially since we don't have long consonants in
> our phonology).

What about the /nn/ in 'greenness'?

David