Question: Pronunciation of French /om/, /on/
Dave Robertson
tuktiwawa at NETSCAPE.NET
Mon Oct 9 06:03:57 UTC 2000
LhaXayEm,
To clarify an idea which I have about the spellings used in _Kamloops Wawa_,
here is a question about continental French pronunciation.
Can it be said that the Standard French phoneme /o/ (not the sound spelled
as "o-circonflexe") when followed immediately by either /m/ or /n/, as in
<homme>
<telephone>
<bonne>
is pronounced more like the sounds spelled <eu>/<oeu> than like <o>?
Does such a pronunciation occur in Belgian French? Other continental
varieties?
Grand merci,
Dave
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