Re: THEORY: Vibrant/tremulant?

Andreas Johansson wrote:


> Quoting Kelly Drinkwater <mizunomi@...>:
>
>> How does that even work? Does the tongue vibrate really rapidly, under
>> its own power? If so, sir, I congratulate you on having an
>> extraordinarily dextrous tongue.
>
> The tongue tip "flaps in the wind", so to speak. No doubt, some hellishly
> complex turbulent flow is going on.
Hmmm, perhaps it's a _voiceless_ r-trill, at least I seem able to do it --
with conscious effort-- without the tip touching the palate (except
occasionally :-(  though it's always _almost_ touching...)  There's also a
lot of h-like or even x- or X- like friction too-- maybe you could work it
in as a cluster??? I wonder if it might be something like Dutch initial gr-
[X+vl. r]

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