Re: Phonology
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 26, 2002, 22:31 |
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In a message dated 4/25/02 08.55.52 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:
>[ . . .] BTW I tend to disagree with the original post-- while the Amurrcan
/r/
>is indeed widely heard (simply because Amer. Engl is all over the place),
>in phonological terms our /r/ is said to be quite rare in languages of the
>world. It's really quite an exotic sound.......:-)
IIRC /r/,/r\/ and /3:`/ are all found - to some degree - in many Chinese
regionalects.
And yes I like rhotics/r-coloured vowels :) I find them "exotic" in a
oddly familar way...
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