Re: Two seperate questions: Rhoticity/Topic-Comment

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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