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Lesson - French Sounds (Pronunciation) - #12
Please see the following for introduction and citation information:
http://moi-alizee.us/forums/showthread.php?t=1101 Note: Letters that appear in red are those that appear with strikethrough in the original text. Elision; Linking Elision Elision is the omission of the final vowel (e, a, i) of a word when the next word begins with a vowel or a mute h. An apostrophe is use to replace the missing letter. Elision occurs with the: e of le, ne, de, me, te, se, je, que l’hôtel, n’a pas, d’Amérique, j’ai, m’a dit, t’aime, s’appelle, qu’il* a of la l’amie, l’histoire, je l’amie i of si before il and ils s’il vous plait, s’ils parlent *e of jusque, lorsque, puique, quoique before il, elle, ils, elles, on (subjects) and before un or une. jusqu’à midi… lorsqu’il est ici… puisqu’un avion vole… mute h The letter h, we have learned, is silent. But all h letters are not alike. There is a mute h which acts as if it did not exist. Notice: l’habitation from la habitation l’histoire from la histoire l’horizon from le horizon BUT… there is a different h, called aspirate, which, although still silent, acts in a different way. aspirate h le héros (luh ay-roh) la harpe (lah ahrp) la hachette (lah ah-shet) You cannot guess which words begin with an aspirate h; you have to look up the word in a dictionary. The aspirate h is marked by an asterisk or some other special mark. The aspirate h which does not permit elision does not permit linking either. Linking Linking (liaison) is an important part of the French language. Words closely related in thought are linked in a sentence be pronouncing the final consonant of the first word and linking it to the initial vowel of the word that follows. les…amis (lay-zah-mee) les…hôtels (lay-zoh-tel) sans…elle (sahng-zel) devant…une porte trés…important C’est…ici chez…elle en…hiver son…ami nos…amis vous…êtes ils…ont ont-ils There are some special linking pronunciations: d pronounced as t un grand…ami un grand…homme au second…étage x pronounced as z six…amis dix…homme f pronounced as v neuf…ans neuf…heures NEVER LINK: et with the next word Paul et Alice m in a nasal vowel un nom / important with onze, huit le / onze en / onze jours with an aspirate h en / haut a proper name Jean / aussi certain set forms mais / oui cent / un
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C'est ta faute... mais on t'aime quand même, Alizée!
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