Re: Lovin' the liquids (was: Re: Mutable R's)

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

>
> With an American /r/, not quite, but at least they try.
Which was the meaning of "as far as it goes" :)) .

>
> I don't think so.  It's quite common (also /r/ = [w] too) in children up
> to
> about 3 yrs, when most outgrow it.
But we were talking in a context where a linguistic teacher had told Kou that
Czech people mastered [r_r] only during their teens. I was answering in that
context. Of course it's not a speech impediment for a child of two. But for a
teenager it is.

  If it persists into adulthood, then
> it's
> an "impediment"-- listen closely to Barbara Walters (Baba Wawa in SNL's
> old
> satire).  IIRC some British politico of recent vintage also had the
> r/w
> problem.
>
Hehe, it reminds me of a particularly hilarious scene of Monty Python's Life of
Brian ;)))))) . Sometimes, humour is *really* cruel ;))) .

Christophe.

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