Historical Introduction to French Phonetics |
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acoustic minimum acoustic prominence affricates alveolar assimilation audible friction Back FIG back vowels became become bilabial cardinal vowels Classical Latin closed syllable common confusion consonant sounds dental devoiced dialects difference diphthong disappeared English word fricative consonant front vowels fully voiced hard palate hear history of language influence later lateral consonant Latin vowel phonemes length less Voiced linguistic lips manner of articulation modern English modern French modern language morphemes nasal consonant nasalized vowel neutral vowel nose open syllable palatal consonant pitch place of articulation plosive consonant position possible presumably principal stress principles probably pronounced pronunciation raised half Half Romance languages semantemes soft palate sound heard Southern English speaker speech sounds spoken language spoken Latin stages stress accent stressed syllable symbol tion to-day unstressed vowels uvular variety velar velum vocal cords vowel sounds Vulgar Latin written language