Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 17:36 |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:01:09AM -0700, Garth Wallace wrote:
> JS Bangs wrote:
> >Mark J. Reed sikyal:
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> >Furthermore, most languages have exactly one rhotic
To clarify: that was JS who said that, not me.
> Is this a universal, or are there some languages with more than one?
There are languages with more than one. For instance, /4/ and /r/ are
distinct in Spanish (c.f. "pero" vs. "perro").
-Mark
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