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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Thursday, October 2, 2003, 20:20
>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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