Re: Mutable R's

 --- Arthaey Angosii skrzypszy:

> >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/.
>
> That's very interesting, actually.  In which phonetic environments does
> each occur?
That is not merely a matter of phonetic environment, but also a matter of
dialect.
[r] is standard, but only a minority (including myself) pronounces it clearly.
[R] is used by many people as an alternative for [r]. I find it as hell of a
thing to pronounce, but many people find it more comfortable than ole plain
[r].
[r\] exists only after a vowel and sounds a bit posh (if someone would
pronounce it at the beginning of a word, that would sound like a grotesque
imitation of an American accent).
[R] sounds very Southern to me.
Another often encountered way to pronounce /r/ is a glide. This is not
dependent on dialect, I think, but mostly on a person's style of speaking.

Jan

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