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Re: Mutable R's

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 15:29
 --- Arthaey Angosii skrzypszy:

> Asha'ille's R-sound is suffering from a severe identity crisis. > > When I started out, /r/ was my American rhotic [r\] with occasional Spanish > trilling [r] influence around consonant clusters. Then I took German 101 > and I began noticing my Asha'illen R's going toward the uvular [R\] (or is > it just [R]? I'm unsure). Once I realized what was going on, the R's > decided to try disappearing altogether British R-drop style.
Well, if it is of any comfort to you: all these pronunciations can be encountered in Dutch, although they are always part of the same phoneme, /r/. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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