Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 18, 2004, 21:34 |
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:04:23PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> > The symbol [r\] represents the usual American English "r"
> > sound, which is an approximant ...
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> Does it? Is that not a simplification of the correct [r\`], i.e.,
> retroflex?
No, my /r/ is definitely not retroflex.
> For 'cure', it should be [kjr\`=], no?
Not for me.
> And for 'error', it may be [Er\`=:].
Definitely not. Apart from the fact that I have no retroflexion, the
word "error" is quite distinctly two syllables with a consonantal [r\]
in the middle. [r\r\=] is not the same as [r\=:] any more than [ji] is
the same as [i:] or [wu] is the same as [u:].
-Mark
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