Re: Rs
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2003, 12:22 |
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At 14:38 2.4.2003 -0500, Amanda Babcock wrote:
>and then there's
>the r in Mohawk (Native American language of the Iroquoian family), which
>often sounds like "rl" (they have no separate l) intervocalically and even
>word-initially! (I really like that sound, despite its mushiness.)
The only grammar of Mohawk (or any other Amerind lg :) wrote the liquid
phoneme as /l/ -- probably to avoid mispronunciation as [R], since the
work was written in English by a Canadienne with a French name.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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