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Re: 'rhotic plosives' (was: laterals)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, February 12, 2004, 6:38
Javier BF wrote:

>>Doesn't work, because I'm physically unable to carry out the tongue >> >> >movements > > >>involved in making a [d] with trill frequency. [r] may be acoustically >>identical to a quick succesion of [d]'s, but not articulatorily. >> >> > >There seems to be a certain amount of people with >a natural inability or difficulty in pronouncing >certain sounds (especially alveolar plosive trills) >even though they may happen to be native speakers >of languages where those occur. Maybe you are one >of those, or else you simply find it too difficult >because you aren't used to pronouncing it. > >
You've misunderstood him. He means that he simply could not pronounce a trill the same way he would a sequence of [d]s.