>This may seen like YAS/IPT, but I'm actually looking for design info for my as
>yet unnamed Romlang. I know that Spanish and Italian /4/ and /r/ contrast
>only between vowels; elsewhere the single spelling _r_ represents both
>phonenes, distributed according to rule. I *seem* to remember that the rule
>is [r] before vowels and [4] after vowels, but I'm not sure, especially not
>about what applies word-finally. Also I don't know whether the same rules
>apply in both languages.
>
>And what about Catalan, Provençal and Portuguese? I think that in the first
>two only /r/ has become /R/ while /4/ remains, and IIRC the same is the case
>in some dialects of Portuguese. How is the actual case with this, and again
>what is the distribution?
>
>Brought to you from the bus. A first for me, so I hope it works!
>
>/BP
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