Re: retroflex consonants
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 6, 2005, 8:22 |
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:51:02 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>All in all assimilation of dentals to a neighboring /r/ is
>the most common source of retroflexes. It happens in
>Swedish and Norwegian where |rt rd rn rs rl| are realized
>as retroflexes (except in those dialects that have uvular
>/R/)
In Ayeri, I have the strange need [coronal]+[coronal] => [[alpha]`] for some
reason, e.g. [l] + [n] => [l`:]. So regarding your examples, my 'strange
need' is not unjustified. Good to know.
Carsten