Re: |r|, |rr| and other Rs. :)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 4, 2004, 8:03 |
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On Oct 4, 2004, at 12:25 AM, Roger Mills wrote:
> Chris Bates wrote:
>> What language is Samarra in?
> Slightly off topic: I heard Mr. Allawi's speech the other day, and was
> struck by his pronunciation of _Saddam_, it seemed rather muffled and
> "swallowed" -- am I correct in suspecting that that "dd" represents an
> emphatic/velarized sound?
I'm pretty sure that it's the |s| in Saddam which is emphatic
(pharyngealized). Some dialects of Arabic have 'emphaticness
spreading/harmony', so the /dd/ may have been influenced by it.
-Stephen (Steg)
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