l'Univers(i)té
Language Log 2024-04-19
Summary:
In a comment on yesterday's post ("High vowel lenition/devoicing in French"), carveuir wrote: Ha! As a final-year undergraduate in 2015, I mentioned having come across devoicing of the second /i/ in "université" to my French linguistics tutor and he didn't believe me. Finally I've been vindicated. My impression is that this is common and perhaps […]