Re: Uvular r in Italian?



Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:54:20 +0200: Ruud Harmsen
<realemailseesite13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>Now I just heard an interview on the Portuguese classical music
>station Antena 2, in which a music teacher was interviewed who spoke
>quite good Portuguese, but clearly with a foreign accent. One feature
>was that she used a uvular r throughout. It could have been a French
>accent of course, but it reminded me more of Spanish or Italian, and
>her name (which was mentioned once, but which I forgot, Lúcia
>something) sounded Italian too.

Lucia Saponaro:
http://www.drac.raa.pt/agenda2.html

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