Re: (Brazilian Portuguese and Rhodrese (was French)

On 2009-01-28 Edgard Bikelis wrote:
> the retroflex approximant, don't know how to write it in
> ASCII
It's [r\`].  I wonder if Rhodrese doesn't have such an
allophone for syllable-final /4/ too; at least it wants to
come out that way for me, unless _-r_ is /R/, with the
final-devoicing allophone [X]! :-)  No doubt that was how
Brazilian [h] came about; as a devoiced allophone of /R/.

/BP 8^)>
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