Re: Rhotics (was: Poll: What looks best?)

On 7/6/07, Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> wrote:
>
> > Now maybe it's time to start the big debate about what, really,
> > does it mean that something is rhotic? :)
>
> I think last time, after the dust had settled, and the blood had been
> mopped up, we ended up with something like "rhotic is in the eye of the
> conlanger", and/or "when I use the word rhotic, it means exactly what I
> want it to mean".
>
> It certainly seems to be a question for the ages.

I thought it was rather well-defined *acoustically*; the difficulty is
mapping the acoustics back to a set of sounds that makes sense in
articulation-space.


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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