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The purpose of this paper is to advance a theory as to the circumstances, linguistic and cultural, in which the uvular [r] has been substituted for the denti-alveolar trill in modern French.
In 1911 the Abbe J. Rousselot wrote:
L'r grasseyée dérive de l'r dentale par un abaissement, qui a été progressif, de la pointe de la langue derrière les dents inférieures, avec une élévation compensatoire du dos de la langue … (174)
L'évolution qui a donné l'r parisienne a commence par la confusion de cette consonne avec z. (175)
[In OFr. words of the type mencie < moneta, peroindre < poroindre the e is a weakening of the o when adjacent to a liquid or nasal which tended to be syllabic. This phenomenon was more frequent in eastern dialects. The progressive changes of an o in this position, to judge from modern dialect forms, must have been poroindre > peroindre or paroindre > proindre. The last form, with zero grade of the vowel, was seldom written in the older texts because of conservatism in spelling.]