Re: retroflex consonants
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 27, 2003, 18:34 |
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At 7:00 AM -0600 1/27/03, Danny Wier wrote:
>Which languages around the world and in conlangs have retroflexes, how did
>they develop, and how do they contrast phonemically with dentals,
alveolars,
>palatoalveolars, etc.?
I'm not sure what a retroflexed consonant is, but a secondary "accent" in
Teonaht (not the one you hear in my recitations on-line) involves what I
always thought was a kind of consonantal retroflex, where consonants are
drawn back in the mouth and the ghost of an "r" intruded. That Teonaht has
the initial consonant "lr" indicates that it can do this, but when the other
consonants are so withdrawn in "Menarilihs," then it's branded as vulgar.
"T" is not alveolar, but drawn back, and back vowels get the ghost of an
"r." I can only demonstrate it on "realplayer"; will do if I have the time.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
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