Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 16:23 |
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At 19:42 2.10.2003, Roger Mills wrote:
>Some Dravidian languages (and I think Proto Drav.) have 3, dental, alveolar
>and retroflex.
Actually realized as [4], [r_d] and [r\], so the distinction is
not merely one of POA.
Moreover Malayalam /4/ has an alveolar stop allophone after /n/.
/BP 8^)
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