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Re: General phonetics // was "Newbie"

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 16:39
Quoting Morgan Palaeo Associates <morganpalaeo@...>:


> Mind you, I've never understood why a retroflex trill is not shaded > impossible. If it's retroflex then the tip of your tongue points > backwards, and you can't trill like that.
I can do a retroflex trill. It's one of the primary allophones of /r/ in my native speech. Andreas