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Re: rhotics (was Hellenish oddities)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 5, 2000, 23:51
At 14:54 2000-12-03 -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>I can pick up tones fairly accurately too (but perhaps not >surprising because my L1 is tonal).
That never helped me, I'm afraid. I am very sensitive to differences in tone realization in Swedish and Norwegian, but I never pick them up in other languages. Weird. / 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.)