Re: Rs

Joe wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:49 PM
>Subject: Re: Rs
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>>Joe scripsit:
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>>>That's why I said 'most'.  Incidentally, do Bostonian accents add 'r' on
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>>>end of final schwa, or is that just the Kennedys(I assume his accent is
>>>Bostonian, as he drops rs)?
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>>The Kennedys do speak Bostonian, but they do not add "r" except in the
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>same
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>>places that RP accents do:  "Cuba and America" becomes /kjub@r&nd@mErIk@/,
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>not
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>>/kjub@r&nd@mErik@r/.
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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.

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