Re: Mutable R's
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 10:54 |
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En réponse à Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:
> Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
> >
> > My R in Ikanirae Seru is a bit undecided too, wavering
> > mostly between and approximant [r\] and a tap [4], but
> > that can be explained that it's a language with
> > phonology drawing on Japanese, which has [4],
>
> I'm pretty sure Japanese has [l\], not [4].
?! That's the first time I hear that one. To me, Japanese and Spanish have
exactly the same rhotic, and it's definitely [4]. It doesn't sound like [l\] at
all. Actually, it has nothing lateral in it!
At least that's what I was
> taught ("try to pronounce a d, r, and l all at once") and what I hear.
>
Well, American intervocalic 'd' is commonly pronounced [4], so that's why you
were taught it this way. And the usual comment that the Japanese 'r' is
between 'r' and 'l' is only due to the fact that Japanese people pronounce [4]
in borrowed words with a 'l'. But I am 100% sure that the Japanese 'r' is a
simple [4]. And I have 200 episodes of Sailor Moon in original version at home
to comfort me in my opinion ;))) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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