Re: What are the Sampa representations for various |r|s?

On Wednesday, November 3, 2004, at 07:27  PM, Sally Caves wrote:

> The retroflex "r."  What I, an American, say in pronouncing "American."
r\

> The final retroflex "r."  What I, an American, say in pronouncing
> "car."  Is
> there much difference?  I feel that there is a minute one, maybe not
> enough
> to count.
It's either the same, or ` on the end of the vowel. Not quite sure.

> The flapped "r."  What a Latina might say in pronouncing her name
> "Sara."
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> The voiced velar fricative.
G

> The velar trill.
According to IPA a velar trill is impossible.

> The retroflex flap, a sound I think I invented, which a Teonivar would
> say
> when pronouncing "Erahenahil" [paradise].  I've given two detailed
> descriptions of that sound in a thread called "Usage: rhotics, etc."
> Is it
> invented or not?
It's real:
r`

> The alveolar flap (no retroflex), which is like the flapped Latin "r"
> but
> articulated at the palate or post alveolar.  What a Teonivar would say
> when
> pronouncing "yry firrimby" ("me all grateful," or "thank you.")
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BTW, what's the difference between, say, /r/ and [r]?

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