Re: [cybalist] Balto and Slavic Rs.

>From: "Mark Odegard" <markodegard@...>
>Reply-To: cybalist@egroups.com
>To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
>Subject: [cybalist] Balto and Slavic Rs.
>Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:21:55 -0500
>
>This is somewhat off topic, but a native-speaker of Lithuanian made this
>comment on another forum which I follow:
>
> Yes, a clear Russian or Lithuanian "r" can be heard in >"shutup" so
>I make use of it when trying to imitate native speakers.

Yeah, the alveolar tap, in full use throughout Canada.

>I'm curious about this Lithuanian or Russian, R, however. Any >comments
>from the Balto-Slavicists? There seems to be a lesson in >phonology here,
>and what might happen in an adstratal context.

Lesson in phonology? What might happen? Are you refering to the eventual
replacement of a particular phoneme of one language into another
neighbouring language, just as English retroflex "r" is working to replace
the spoken Canadian French -r (as in "le leader", "faire", "la m�re") which
is traditionally uvular or trilled, perhaps?

- gLeN

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