Re: USAGE: rhoticity [was Re: The [??] attribute]
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 13, 2002, 3:30 |
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At 16:34 2002-09-12 -0700, Nihil Sum wrote:
>So: is the y consonant just a very short i-glide before the vowel?
Yes.
>Likewise,
>is the r consonant sound* just a very short "er" glide before the next
>vowel?
Yes. In General American, that is.
/BP 8^)>
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