Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 20:20 |
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>BTW, my attempts to master uvular rhotics to the point I can use them in
>connected speech have hitherto failed, but I believe my current cold has
>taught
>me to make a voiceless pharyngeal fricative ...
>
> Andreas
And, boy, are those voiceless pharyngeal fricatives useful when you're
trying to speak German :-)
Don't be too worried about the uvulars, Andreas. If I could learn to use a
Danish uvular /r/ in connected speech at the same time as I was also
learning to make more than one variety of front rounded vowel and figuring
out how to turn /d/'s into glottal stops, *and* how to make those
*extremely* odd sounds that /t/ and /d/ turn into post- and
intervocalically, then I'm sure that you can get just the [R]. You haven't
been there very long, after all, and these things take a little time.
I hope your cold is better soon.
Isidora
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