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- Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /ɑ/ /ɛː/ in Quebec / Belgian French: inflectional paradigm?
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Re: /ɑ/ /ɛː/ in Quebec / Belgian French: inflectional paradi
Delurking to post some clarifications on the topic, as a speaker of one of the varieties in question. First of is that in Belgian French the contrast isn't between /ɑ/ and /a/, but /aː/ and /a/. Second is that it normally doesn't show any traces of the debucalised /s/ in (what are now) open syllable...