Re: retroflex consonants

Quoth Danny Wier:

> American English (r)
Curiously enough, two of my cousins (and I suspect they're not alone) have
retroflex affricates instead of alveolars preceding /r/. I was reading a
story the younger of the two had written last year, and noticed that she
spelled "tree" as "chree" and "drive" as "jrive"; and a few tests were
enough to show that these were at the same POA as the /r/. I think my /t/s
and /d/s are somewhat retroflexish in these positions as well, though more
in a Bengali than Sanskrit sense.

Cheers,
   Josh

----------
Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...>
"After the tempest I behold, once more, the weasel."
(Mispronunciation of Ancient Greek)

Replies