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Re: Two seperate questions: Rhoticity/Topic-Comment

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, December 11, 2006, 0:07
Quoting taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>:

> * li_sasxsek@nutter.net said on 2006-12-09 15:54:36 +0100 > > li [Behalf Of Adam F.] mi mi tulis la > > > These questions I have are things I've always been curious about. > > > Does anyone know why some languages have the tendency to have weak > > > rhoticity or to drop so-called "r" sounds? > > > > There is also a bit of the same thing in Swedish and Norwegian, but R > > isn't just dropped. There is usually some effect on the following sound > > unlike English where there is usually some sort of change to the > > previous vowel. > > To be exact, the r and the following consonant fuse into a retroflex in > some dialects (including mine), meaning some Norwegian and Swedish > dialects have a full series of retroflex consonants. Neat, huh?
"Some" dialects is rather an understatement - it's a feature of rikssvenska, and of the speech of I'd think most Swedes. Andreas

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