Re: rhotics (was Hellenish oddities)

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^)>
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