- 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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