Re: Revising my consonant inventory

Andreas Johansson skrev:
 > Quoting Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
 >
 >> On Aug 13, 2007, at 10:00 AM, R A Brown wrote:
 >
 >> I haven't found much about it online, but incidentally,
 >> this paper ( http://www.nytud.hu/cescl/proceedings/Danie-
 >> l_Huber_CESCL.pdf ) mentions it (or at least the Kunming
 >> variety of it) has a change of retroflex to dental, which
 >> is a change I wondered about the existence of.
 >
 > This is found in certain Swedish dialects.
 >
 >              Andreas

Surely. My 9 y.o. son commented not long ago on how strange
it was that _mod_ 'courage' and _mord_ 'murder' are
homonyms. He wasn't even aware they were spelled
differently, since probably murder hasn't been mentioned in
school texts! :-)

In all fairness it should be mentioned that at least in
Gothenburg dialect the merger product is lamino-
alveolar, BTW.


/BP 8^)>
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