LL-L "Phonology" 2005.11.24 (05) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 24 November 2005 * Volume 05
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From: "Niels Winther" <nielswinther at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology"

From: Niels Winther
Subject: Phonology

Ingmar wrote:
>>
One other thing about tones and accents I've been wondering about for
many years already, but never heard or read something or someone about:
in French, the last syllable of a word bears stress, as a rule.
But in modern spoken French, there seems to be a tendency to withdraw the
stress to the first syllable. A tendency, I said, this doesn't mean that
the first syllable actually gets the stress now, and the result sounds, in
my ears, as if the first syllable in French gets a higher tone than the
last, stressed one.
Does this sound familiar to someone, does anyone recognize and / or
understand what I mean?
I always found this fascinating, but my French teachers didn't see what I
was talking about...
<<
Charles de Gaulle pronounced French as Ingmar describes it here.
This new tendency might actually have spread through his influence.

Cheers
Niels

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