Re: retroflex consonants
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 4:40 |
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(someone made a list of some natlang retroflex sounds which included this)
> > American English (r)
Is this sound actually retroflex? As I understood it, the term "retroflex"
meant a sound where the tongue was pointing at the back of the mouth. The
/r/ (roof) in American English has the tongue definitely pointing to the
front of the mouth, with the contact being between the middle of the tongue
and the palate above, just forwards of where it contacts for /j/ (you).
Is there some other dialect of English where /r/ is retroflex?
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