THEORY: Japanese /r/ (was THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article])
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 4, 2003, 18:33 |
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At 01:02 3.7.2003 +1000, Tristan wrote:
>Well, I've heard native speakers natively speaking Japanese in a real
>life, and things like /rja/ (i.e. big RI, small ya) sounded exactly like
>[lja] to me, but that could just be my non-rhotic ear playing tricks on
>me.
Cool, since I decided that Kedjeb *rj is the main source
of /l/ in Sohlob. To be honest I didn't grab it completely
out of thin air, since /rj/ > /l/ is found in North-West
Iranian languages (e.g. _Alani_, Latin plural of a form
deriving from *a:rya:na-.
/BP 8^)
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