Re: Mutable R's

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@H...> wrote:
 > 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.

That would be consistent with German...  it has uvular [R]
syllable-initially, but a purely vocalic [6] (a-flavored
schwa) at syllable-ends, e.g. "Ruder" [Ru:d6], "Tor"
[t_ho:6].


-- Christian Thalmann