Re: new lang: nvwl

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:40:35 +0100 Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> En réponse à Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>:
>
> >
> > yes, fricatives can be syllable peaks (isn't [R] a fricative?)
> >
>
> Indeed. But it's also a rhotic, and in this respect behaves nearly
> like an
> approximant (indeed, in my French idiolect the |r| is very often
> pronounced as
> an uvular approximant rather than fricative).
well, in nvwl, _r_ [r] is the only rhotic that behaves differently from
other consonants and that's only because it's the only trill. _R_ [R]
behaves just like any other fricative and _y_ [r\] behaves like any other
approximant.

> Christophe.
Robert Wilson (aka Elentirno Perellar aka Kuvazokad)
http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
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