Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 19:43 |
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On 2 Oct 2003 at 20:43, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Well, the book is incorrect at least on one thing: French *doesn't*
> distinguish between a voiced uvular fricative and an alveolar trill.
Bah. Maybe it's talking about allophones, then. Some of the other examples talk
more clearly about what look like separate phonemes.
I do know for a fact that German has at least a trill of some kind (varying
dialectically on point of articulation?) and the asyllabic open central vowel, which is
kind of an uvular approximant, but not quite, occuring after vowels.
Paul
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