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Re: Rs

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 7:00
> > > 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?
I can't think of any example of that particular one at the movement, but Swedish have some minimal pairs like _tår_ [to:r`] "tear" vs _torr_ [tOr`:] "dry", _sur_ [s}:r`] "sour" vs _surr_ [s8r`:] "buzz". Phonemically I'd want to write this /to:r/, /tor/, /s}:r/, /s}r/, but people are going to disagree about what is phonemic as regards to long vowel plus short consonant vs vice versa. Andreas

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