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Natural Accent Talent: The magic of Urdu?

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 Message 33 of 33
11 June 2009 at 5:55pm | IP Logged 
Marc Frisch wrote:

I may be wrong, but I think the classical pronunciation of the French R is an uvular thrill, not an alveolar thrill, and I've heard many people in the South of France pronounce it that way. The standard pronunciation is pretty close to Arabic "ghayn" by the way.

They can even overlap, I thought.
Few people doubt that the pronunciation of "r" is alveolar when Racine wrote his plays. "Good" changes start late, in Paris. The quality of nasalized vowels is another example, where Paris contrasts herself with the South, Quebec and Africa.


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