Re: pronunciation of Latin

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From: Grzegorz Kondrak
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00

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Alfredo Moscianese <alfredo@anteo.it> writes:

>b) the great majority of non-Central Italians follow their regional 
>pronunciation of <e> and <o>, not only when speaking dialect but also when 
>speaking strictly standard Italian

Does it mean that a student of Italian doesn't have to worry about two
e's and two o's ? Is there any dialect that uses just one phoneme for
both?

GK

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From: kondrak@cs.toronto.edu (Grzegorz Kondrak)
Subject: Re: pronunciation of Latin
Date: 1997/02/06
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