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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6720 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 14 03 January 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Japanese do it all the time (Alex->Arekkusu), some languages don't have words ending with a consonant, and if they do, there's typically a schwa before or after. Cluster initials are common in some languages, not in others.
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The official standard for Dutch is the alveolar "r". They teach speech therapists here to use the alveolar "r" with children (in Belgium this is what would happen de facto if you could not pronounce that sound). However speaking with any of the others is not considered wrong in the Netherlands, and because so many people don't, speaking differently is not considered a speech defect (due to an abundance of dialects featuring a uvular r, both in the west and in Limburg). In Belgium, the alveolar "r" is the standard for Dutch de facto. Only in certain small dialects, in Ghent and in Brussels is the r uvular (the latter probably due to the influence of French). Distinction between the tap and trill is not made, I think you can use either. Edited by tarvos on 03 January 2013 at 4:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Many linguists say French words are not stressed on the last syllable,
since the last vowel is an unstressed schwa (which is always pronounced in Central and Southern French accents, although rarely in Northern and Parisian French, unless speaking slowly or putting additional stress on the word). Edited by Camundonguinho on 03 January 2013 at 6:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Specifically in this case, as a sub-category of "epenthesis", this feature is called "pleophony" , that is, adding a vowel after liquids ("r" or "l" sounds).
"worm" - "wor-um" in Scottish English pronunciation "film" - "fil-um" in Southern Irish pronunciation It happens a lot across Slavic languages. You can see it in the city names "Београд" (Bee-o-grad = Belgrade in Serbian) compared to "Новгород" (Nov-gor-od = Novgorod in Russian). The *grad /*gorod part meaning roughly "town/city/camp". Also: "milk" - "molok" (молоко) in Russian 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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This is also a feature of Scots and Irish gaelic. Gorm (blue) - go-ram Alba (Scotland) - al-a-ba 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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