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Re: The beautifulest phonology

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 21, 2002, 13:35
czHANg wrote:
> >Next thing you know, someone mentions uvulars and retroflexes... >::shudder:: > > HEY there! Whats wrong with a _few_ retroflexes, i.e. /t'/ /d'/ /l'/ >!!!
Hey there yourself! We're definitely in need of [s`], [z`] and [n`] too, not to mention the compulsory retroflex trill, which I think is [r`] in X-SAMPA. (Of the above-mentioned retroflexes, only [l`] is absent in my dialect, altho' [z`] and [r`] are allophones of the same phoneme /r/.) Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com