Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!

Citerar "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On 3/26/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> > You'd think so, but one of the harder sounds for me to learn was [k].
>
> Agreed.  Fortunately, [g_0] works most of the time, although I'm
> assured that it is actually distinct from [k].
>
>
> > nowhere near as hard as a uvular trill (which has got to be
> > the hardest sound to produce in any language for typical English
> > speakers to learn
>
> Well, I suppose I may not be a "typical" English speaker, but the
> uvular trill was absolutely trivial for me to learn.   There are
> plenty of IPA sounds I *still* can't produce, so it doesn't even rank.
I'm not a native English speaker, and my father's ideolect has the uvular trill,
but it still took me plenty practice to master.

                                               Andreas