----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Rs
> Joe scripsit:
>
> > That's why I said 'most'. Incidentally, do Bostonian accents add 'r' on
the
> > 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
> /kjub@r&nd@mErik@r/.
>
That's what I get for listening to parodies too much ;-)