Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 4, 2003, 3:22 |
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JS Bangs wrote:
> Garth Wallace sikyal:
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>>JS Bangs wrote:
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>>>Mark J. Reed sikyal:
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>>>Furthermore, most languages have exactly one rhotic
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>>Is this a universal, or are there some languages with more than one?
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> I have read about a South American language with a distinction between
> trilled and approximant r's. However, such languages are pretty rare.
Hmm. I asked because one of my language sketches has 3 rhotics (or 2,
depending on how you count): /r\/, /4/, and /r/. /r/ could also be
considered /4:/, or more accurately /4.4/.