Re: Mutable R's
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 14:44 |
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
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> What is Czech r-caret? I've never seen any descent description of it ...
Alveolar fricative trill (or "voiced strident apico-alveolar trill" if you want
a complete description :)) ). Used to have its own IPA character ("latin small
letter r with long leg", Unicode position 027C), which became obsolete in 89.
Now rendered in IPA as [r_r] (in X-SAMPA), i.e. "raised r".
> my
> unhelpful encyclopaedia's pronunciation guides of Czech names makes is
> [rS],
> which I find slightly difficult to believe, and looking up the article
> on Czech,
> it says simultaneous [r] and [Z], which ought to be impossible.
>
Yet it's a correct description, as it's basically how it sounds like. I don't
know if my pronunciation is exactly correct, but to my ears it seems to be so.
I basically pronounce it like an [r], i.e. apically trilled, but instead of
having the body of the tongue low, I have it close to the palate, so that there
is added friction to the trill. It definitely sounds like simulatenous [r] and
[Z].
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
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