Re: Chinese Dialect Question

 --- Tommie L Powell ha tera a:
> Okay, Jesse, how about Czech?  Not only does it have two
> radically different sounds represented by the Roman letter "r"
> (and only distinguished by putting a harchek on one of them):
> The harchek "r" sounds (to the listener's ear) like a bastard
> child of some "s" family, though it's made in the same part of
> the mouth as the other Czech "r" is made in.
This looks like the right place to slip in that, in my Acquisition of
Phonology lecture today, the professor was talking about trills (not
all rhotics, unfortunately), and said that most languages have only one
trill, and that the maximum is two, as in Czech.  (And of course some
languages have none.)

Estel

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