>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Peterson" <ThatBlueCat@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: OT: Nasalization of French Vowels
>
>
> > Thanks everyone for your input. A question for Christophe: Does this
> mean
> > that, in French, nasalized vowels and nasal codas are in complimentary
> > distribution? That is, you can have:
> >
> > [bO]
> > [bO~]
> > [bOn]
> >
> > But never:
> >
> > [bO~n]
> >
> > If so, that's very interesting.
> >
>
> I'm not Christophe but I'll answer anyway.
>
> That's true for standard French and I think for most of it's European
> "dialects".
> But some persons (e.g. some Belgians) use [E~n] in words ending in "aine"
or
> "enne". For example my mother (and I too when I was a child) says
[fo~tE~n]
> for |Fontaine| which is pronounced [fO~tEn] or [fo~tEn] in standard
French.
>
> Notice BTW that I don't know any word which is pronounced [bO]. |Beau| is
> pronounced [bo].
>
>
> Jean-François Colson
> jfcolson@belgacom.net
>