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Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Friday, August 29, 2003, 21:22
>As you've probably gathered by now, I hold German to be a more beautiful- >sounding language than French. Apparently a minority opinion ... > > Andreas
Count me into the minority. I don't mind uvular r's, though. Danish has them, and I think they sound fine but can be monstrously difficult to pronounce when adjoining a front sound (either vowel or consonant). (I was going to give an example, but realized that I can't even transcribe it due to the peculiar lenition of Danish coronal stops.) The French r that I learned was a uvular trill, which can get harsh, but the Danish r is a voiced uvular approximate. There isn't any IPA or X-SAMPA given for that spot in the chart I consulted: it's empty. (Does't anyone *care* about transcribing Danish r's accurately?!) Isidora

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>French r