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Re: Trademarks

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:24
YHL wrote:
>>But I maybe shouldn't say to much since my German teachers (both the guy >>who >>don't believe in low rounded vowels and the German one) tell be that I >>preferably shouldn't use any retroflex trills when speaking German >>(however, >>tho' I still can't make uvuluar r's reliably, I can at least do those >>vocalized ones nowadays, so I'm improving). > >It took me about a year and then suddenly the uvular r became easy and >sustainable, but I still have no idea how I trained my tongue. I'm hoping >that if I persist for long enough despite hecklers the alveolar trill will >someday come to me. :-) I *hated* it when my friend told me that if he >didn't tell me I was pronouncing it wrong, I would keep on pronouncing it >wrong. I knew damn well I was mispronouncing the trill; ability to >distinguish sounds doesn't, unfortunately, always imply ability to produce >them, effort notwithstanding. <sigh>
Speaking of r's, I recently decided that the Tairezazh /r/ is an alveolar trill in standard pronunciation. Previously, it was a retroflex trill, which altho' I find it easier to pronounce, doesn't fit into the general phonological system very well. I also realized that one could sort Tairezazh consonant inventory in way that looks quite symetric: p t ts tS k b d dz dZ g f T s S v D z Z l r m n
>Schrödinger's Cat: Wanted dead and alive.
LOL! Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp