Re: CHAT: Historical linguistics, and soundlaws
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 1999, 7:12 |
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"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> All the evidence is that it was trilled much like the modern Italian, Scots
> & Welsh /r/.
What evidence would that be? Is it merely that the trill is the most
probable ancestor of the various Romance r's?
> Occasionally one does come across the change /r/ to /z/. This happened in
> some French dialects at some time in the past. This seems to have been a
> passing fad, but some stuck;
I've read that that was a brief, intentional, change by people who felt
that the French /r/ was an ugly sound, and wanted to avoid it.
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