Re: rhotics (was: Hellenish oddities)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 15:31 |
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En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
>
> Interesting-- within the past 40 years, then. I more or less learned
> pronunciation in 1959 from a French gentleman in Saigon, who could trill
> his
> uvula amazingly well.
>
Well, French has undergone quite a few sound changes in the last 40 years (some
even happened when I was already born, like the collapsing between /E~/ and /9~/
which hadn't begun when I was 6 and is nearly complete by now - I'm 24 -), so it
seems very likely. Yet, I can easily trill my uvula while I never used the
uvular trill in my L1.
Christophe.