Re: Rs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Rs


> Joe wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> >To: <CONLANG@...>
> >Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:49 PM
> >Subject: Re: Rs
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Joe scripsit:
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> >>>That's why I said 'most'.  Incidentally, do Bostonian accents add 'r'
on
> >>>
> >>>
> >the
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> >>>end of final schwa, or is that just the Kennedys(I assume his accent is
> >>>Bostonian, as he drops rs)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>The Kennedys do speak Bostonian, but they do not add "r" except in the
> >>
> >>
> >same
> >
> >
> >>places that RP accents do:  "Cuba and America" becomes
/kjub@r&nd@mErIk@/,
> >>
> >>
> >not
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> >
> >>/kjub@r&nd@mErik@r/.
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> >>
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> >
> >That's what I get for listening to parodies too much ;-)
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> >
> Thanks all for your replies... my accent, although of course to me it
> doesn't sound like I have one, is a nottinghamshire (central england)
> one, but not of the "'ey up me duck" type lol. Incidentally, does a long
> vowel and a short vowel followed by r sound significantly different? Are
> there any languages which contrast ir and i:r for instance? And do many
> languages contrast different kinds of r, like for instance spanish,
> which contrasts r (a tap or short trill) with rr (a longer trill).
>  I think I'm doomed to mispronounce rs when learning foreign languages,
> because the english r seems rare, and while I can do the uvular (I think
> its uvular) trill of northern french, school really put me off french
> for life. They tried to teach me french and german for a year at the
> same time and all they succeeded in doing was making me ferverently hate
> both languages.
>
Ah, a fellow Englander.  We need some more of your type around here.  ;-)

So, tell us about any Conlangs that you may have...

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