Re: OT: Is English the only language that doesn't roll R's?
From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 02/26/05
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:53:13 +0000
I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net>
wrote (in <pan.2005.02.26.05.42.05.88516@example.net>) about 'OT: Is
English the only language that doesn't roll R's?', on Sat, 26 Feb 2005:
>The subject line pretty much says it all. I was musing about my voice-
>spectrum thing, and the unrolled "r" sound has a very strangely flat
>spectrum from 300-3K Hz.
The 'r' phoneme varies a lot between languages, and is rolled in some
English accents and dialects - some Scottish ones, for example. In some
languages, rolled and unrolled are distinguished as separate phonemes.
French has the 'uvular r', which is characteristic, if not unique.
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