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Re: rhotics (was Hellenish oddities)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 5, 2000, 23:48
At 11:14 2000-12-03 -0500, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>When I'm reading at home and see a word with an "r" in it I've taken to >wriggling my tongue tip trying to see it with the trill. :-)
Does it help you to visualize the proper oral gymnastics? I've found it does so for me with new sounds. A thought: maybe what method(s) helps you produce a trill depends on what kinds of similar sounds there are in your native language. It occurs to me that my founetiks teacher's method maybe presupposes that ones natural /d/ is dental or post-dental rather than alveolar, as is usu the case with Swedes, or maybe that your usual /r/ is a rather strident retroflex fricative. / B.Philip Jonsson B^)> -- mailto:bp.nospam@netg.se (delete .nospam) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "If a language is a dialect with an army and a navy, of what language, pray, is Basque a dialect?" (R.A.B.)