Actually to pronounce “enfant” you can put your tongue completely into sleeping mode. Don’t try to pronounce any “hard n” or “m” or other consonant except for for the “f”. Other than that, what the comments under your post says ...
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Tendances dans la prononciation du redoublement graphique des consonnes du mot « grammaire » ?
Business EditorsJe dirais que /ɡʁamɛʁ/ plutôt que /ɡʁam:ɛʁ/ est la prononciation la plus courante. Le français ne connaît pas vraiment les consonnes dites doubles dans la prononciation. Double est impropre, le son consonantique étant tout simplement tenu plus longtemps, d’où ma ...
Nasal vowel followed by nasal consonant in the same syllable
Associations EditorsRarissimes : les passés simples de venir et tenir : nous tînmes, nous vînmes.
Les voyelles nasales avant des consonnes nasales
Associations EditorsIl existe au moins 2 autres cas de voyelles explicitement nasales (et non accidentellement, comme dans la prononciation familière de même au Québec ou celle des voyelles nasales en fin de mot dans le Midi de la France, /lapɛ̃ŋ/ pour ...
Prononciation de « spécimen » : pourquoi pas le son nasal ?
Business EditorsLe TLFi indique que le mot est entré dans le dictionnaire de l’Académie en 1835, qui mentionnait alors… On prononce, au singulier et au pluriel, spécimène (en 1935, spécimenne) On mentionne aussi que le mot a été emprunté à l’anglais ...
How are nasal vowels denasalized during liaison?
Associations EditorsAs far as I know, words ending with -un do not denasalize when they participate in a liaison, which is rare. The liaison is mandatory with un, aucun, commun Un avion ɛ̃n‿avjɔ̃ or in a wide Paris area œ̃n‿avjɔ̃ D’un ...
How is /a/ pronounced before n/m in French?
Associations EditorsThe two are pronounced the same. The nasal sound might come from the double ‘n’, but that’s beyond my expertise (and the question). Reference : french is my mother tongue. The widespread pronunciation is [pano] with no nasalisation. You might ...
Pronouncing ɛ̃: are there variants?
Associations EditorsThere definitely are variants in the pronunciation of that sound. It depends on things like the age of the speaker and where they come from. I don’t hear that much difference between the two examples you link, but truthfully I ...
Problem with the pronunciation of sequences of “in”, “a” and “un” vowel sounds
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You can’t pronounce that too fast; use the indicated sounds, taking care to pronounce each nasal vowel fully so as to avoid blurred sounds; it’s difficult for natives too as the usual distribution of sounds in French is based on ...
Pronunciation of i at the beginning of a word in French
Business Editors[This probably isn’t the most linguistically rigorous explanation, but I’ve found it to be the most helpful way to conceptualize the phonological rules involved.] No, it depends on the exact phonetic structure of the word. Examples where an initial I ...