Re: rhotics
| From: | Keith Alasdair Mylchreest <kam@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 2, 2000, 1:28 |
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:48:08PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> *sigh* I can't whistle nor trill an /r/ :-(
> The bilabial trill is about the only trill I can do.
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I remember reading once that the bilabial trill although easy to do (e.g.
"Brrrr, it's cold!") isn't used as a phoneme in any know language. Is that
true. I seems a bit odd given all the "impossible" clicks, glottals,
multiple articulations etc that are used in speech.
Keith