Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 0:51 |
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--- Adam Walker ha tera a:
> And of course Rhotic dialects of English have two
> rhotics in complementary distribution.
Which two rhotics are you talking about? Two different allophones of
"r"?
If we're including allophones, then what about [4], used by many
dialects for intervocalic "t" and "d"? It's even in complementary
distribution with "r", I think:
(note: for convenience, I'm going to use [r]/r/ for the English
approximant "r".)
/bEri/ [bEri] Barry/berry
/bEti/ [bE4i] Betty (or "beddy", if such a word existed.)
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