Re: rhotics (was Hellenish oddities)

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Dan Sulani wrote:

>     Have you tried what I recommended in my post
> from 23 Nov? Namely, stick out your tongue,
> _loosely_ close your lips around it, then pull it in and up
> quickly past the [t] position on the way to the retroflex  r.
> At the same time, blow outward.
Great idea!  I was nomail for a while so I missed it.  This is also a
good exercise for that infamous Czech palatal rhotic trill (r-caron),
where you get an alveolar trill going then progress toward a palatal
approximant.  It's only vaguely like [rZ], which many compare the sound
to.

Anyway, these are exercises you can do in the car on the way to work in
the morning.

DaW.