From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 7731
Date: 2001-06-23
>But postalveolar sounds are made behind the upper teeth as well. If the flapped or tapped /r/ was retracted but not subapical,So does Swedish /r/. Is the Swedish phoneme alveolar or retroflex?
>and if the retroflex variant was only slightly so, how would a naive observer have known the difference? I think the phonological
>argument remains very strong: /r/ triggers retroflex place assimilation
>as well as retroflex consonant harmony across an=======================
>intervening vowel. I can't imagine an ordinary alveolar doing such things.