Re: [tied] W's in Swedish??

The uvular /r/ is expansive in Norway in South-West Norway, but it
won't replace the trilled /r/ completely because the presense of
retroflexives seem to make an area immune.

This is seen the trilled /r/ are replaced by uvular /r/ only in the
dialects where there are no retroflexives.

I don't know if similar distrubution is found other places in Europe.


Håvard

--- In cybalist@..., Harald Hammarstrom <haha2581@...> wrote:
> > Harald:
> > >I have noticed though that more than a few people Ostergotland
> > > >(mid-south-east of Sweden) use /w/ for their usual uvular r's
as
> > >in /wa"kor/ for /ra"kor/ meaning "shrimp".
> >
> > Uvular r?? My gramma definitely never used uvulars. She lightly
> > trilled her r's, sometimes sounding like simple taps. You mean
> > there are uvular r's in Swedish too? Man, uvulars really get
> > AROUND in Europe, don't they :)
>
> Oh yes, the whole tip south of say Halmstad speaks with uvular r's.
Since
> it's the part closest to the continent one can speculate it's due to
> areal influence (I'm sure this has been settled though in someone's
> research). Like you say, uvular r's are conquering the whole
continent,
> maybe Spain will be the last outpost :-)
>
> mvh
>
> Harald