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Re: new lang: nvwl

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 19:59
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). Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.