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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: h aspiree [was: Re: The Naming of Letters
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:09:15 GMT
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In article <33E05116.13C0@eurocontrol.fr>,
Peter Hullah  <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff wrote:
>> 
>> French grammarians, being French, take "aspirated" to mean something
>> totally different when applied to French <h>s than what it means when
>> applied to <h>s elsewhere.  I think Mr. Walsh clearly meant "pronounced
>> with audible aspiration" rather than "preventing liaison".  In other
>> words, French has no [h].  It may, however,  have /h/ depending on how one
>> writes the phonological rules for liaison.
>
>One of the songs on Francis Cabrel's excellent "Quelqu'un de
>l'interieur" album (I can't remember which song) contains the phrase "et
>des hordes de loups" in which the 'h' seems, to my ear at least, to be
>very much prononced. Perhaps this is a particularity of the South-West.

Perhaps.  [h] certainly exists in Gascon (from Latin /f/).  However, I
know next to nothing about a Gascon accent on French and whether or not
the [h] would carry over.

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