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Note on the Development of the Modern French Vowel System

Pages 60-64 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015

  • Histoire de la langue française, VI (Paris, 1952), 973.
  • Ibid., pp. 973–974.
  • André Martinet, « Notes sur la phonologie du français vers 1700 », Bulletin de la Sociét Linguistique de Paris, XLIII (1946), 13–23.
  • Cf. Th. Rosset, Les Origines de la prononciation moderne (Paris, 1911), pp. 117 ff.
  • See Ch. Thurot, De la prononciation française denuis le commencement du XVIe siècle (Paris, 1881–1883), I, 50 ff.
  • cf. the author's article in Orbis, V (1956), 35–60.
  • Except before /r/ plus consonant, where /ę/ has become /a/.
  • I omit those words which show /e/ for /wę/, as froid /fret/, je crois /kre/, obviously of provincial origin.
  • Cf. Thurot, I, 355.
  • Ibid., I, 356 ff.
  • See J.-M. Carrière, “The Phonology of Missouri French: A Historical Study,” French Review, XIV (1941), 410–415 and 510–515.
  • Cf. Wm. A. Read, Louisiana-French (Baton Rouge, 1931), p. xx.

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