Re: Portuguese lingual r

Ruud Harmsen wrote:
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:03:49 +0200: "Ekkehard Dengler"
<ED-RS@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

I mean I wasn't saying that unreliable oppositions were unthinkable. These
things may not always be black and white, but there's no getting away from
the fact that millions of speakers pronounce <ou> exactly like /o/, which to
me looks like the definition of a merger.

Is Manuela Azevedo, dos Clã, from the North?

I think so.

Vitorino isn't, of course.

I remember there one
song, in which she sings an <ou> that is clearly different from a
closed <o>. But it could also be that it happens where an unstressed
<a> follows, I which case I always imagine to hear soem sort of [w]
that isn't really there, as in <cada hora>.

That one should have an /O/.
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