From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 7716
Date: 2001-06-22
--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
Thank you for your comment.
> Perhaps Sanskrit /r/ was a postalveolar flap before vowels and a
>postalveolar fricative/approximant when preconsonantal or syllabic.
So it was not a trill in any case?
>The tendency to realise syllabic <r> as [ri] or [ru] brings to mind
>the treatment of <pretty> in American English.
And this treatment is due to retroflex quality of AmEn /r/?
Sergei