Re: The beautifulest phonology
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 25, 2002, 23:09 |
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Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> I never quite understood why people call German "guttural". Unless
> you use the Hitler-style drumroll /r/ and uvular /X/s, there is very
> little about the language that would deserve that predicate.
It's probably an out-of-date judgement from the days when German /g/
was a fricative (BTW, which fricative?).
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