Re: French phonetics

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:

>
> --- 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
>

You know, after writing my message, I realized that I had ignored such
cases, and thought that maybe I should correct it, but I thought that
I had corrected enough messages, and I figured that cybalist readers
would understand the gist of what I was saying, which was that English
speakers do not have long consonants _within a morpheme_, unlike
Italian. In our language long consonants only exist across morpheme
boundaries. But I was wrong, your message is evidence that I should
have been more precise in my message and should have corrected it when
I realized this.

Andrew