Re: Personal Conjugation based on Closeness

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:
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>>On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>>>>The One True and Correct pronunciation is of course
>>>>
>>>>[an'dr`e:as]~[an'dr\`e:as].
>>>>
>>>>One true and correct yet you list two?
>>>
>>>That's known as having a sense of humour! :-)
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>>If you insist :)
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>>>More to the point, [r`] and [r\`] belongs to the same phoneme; which
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>>gets used
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>>>depends mostly on talking speed. OTOH, rendering the second "a" as
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>>schwa is
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>>>right out of the question.
>>
>>[r\`] is the American r, isn't it? retroflex approximate?
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>
> The infamous American /r/ usually gets written [r\] on this list, which would
> imply a alveolar trill. But my [r\`] above is meant to indicate a retroflex
> trill, yes.
According to the chart, [r\] is an alveolar approximant, not a trill.
The trill is [r].