Re: Mutable R's
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 15:29 |
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--- Arthaey Angosii skrzypszy:
> Asha'ille's R-sound is suffering from a severe identity crisis.
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> 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
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