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Re: Strange phonology

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 17:31
FFlores wrote:

> I'd like to know your opinion on some sounds > I intend to have in a new language. > > 1) Have you ever heard of an aspirated trill? > I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, represented as > <rh>, which would be /r/ with a simultaneous > aspiration. I mean, it looks possible, but I don't > know if it exists anywhere and if it could contrast > with a non-aspirated trill /r/.
Teonaht has one, which it contrasts with a non-aspirated trilled "r": hr and r. Welsh might have what you call an aspirated trill, as in Rhonabwy, but I've only really ever heard it as a kind of hissed "flap." That's not describing it very well. Sally
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