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  2. French phonology - Wikipedia

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    Aspirated h. Help:IPA/French. v. t. e. French phonology is the sound system of French. This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French. Notable phonological features include its uvular r, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds: liaison, a specific instance of sandhi in which word-final ...

  3. Help:IPA/French - Wikipedia

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    Help:IPA/French. Help. : IPA/French. < Help:IPA. This is the for transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link ...

  4. Phonological history of French - Wikipedia

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    French also shows enormous phonetic changes between the Old French period and the modern language. Spelling, however, has barely changed, which accounts for the wide differences between current spelling and pronunciation. Some of the most profound changes have been: The loss of almost all final consonants.

  5. Kitchen brigade - Wikipedia

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    The kitchen brigade ( Brigade de cuisine, French pronunciation: [bʁiɡad də kɥizin]) is a system of hierarchy found in restaurants and hotels employing extensive staff, commonly referred to as "kitchen staff" in English-speaking countries. The concept was developed by Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935). [ 1][ 2] This structured team system ...

  6. Quebec French phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of Quebec French is more complex than that of Parisian or Continental French. Quebec French has maintained phonemic distinctions between /a/ and /ɑ/, /ɛ/ and /ɛː/, /ø/ and /ə/, /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/. The latter phoneme of each pair has disappeared in Parisian French, and only the last distinction has been maintained in ...

  7. Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia

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    The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English. Through this vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels were changed.

  8. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    For instance, Received Pronunciation of English has been claimed to have anywhere between 11 and 27 vowels, whereas West ǃXoon has been analyzed as having anywhere from 87 to 164 consonants. Languages at the low end of the spectrum ( Piraha , Rotokas ) and especially the high end ( Ubykh , Gǀui , ǂʼAmkoe for consonants, Wobe etc. for tones ...

  9. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.

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