Re: [tied] Re: uvular R

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 7759
Date: 2001-06-29

In Maddieson's (1984) fairly representative database of 317 languages, 74 (23.3%) have no phonemes classified as rhotic.
 
Piotr
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: uvular R


Piotr:
>I wouldn't say that apical trills exist because there is eternal
> >equilibrium between [r] and other rhotics. They exist because the
> >common-or-garden apical trill is an important stage in the natural >life
>cycles of consonants.

Hmm, I have a question. How rare is it for a language to not have
any rhotic at all?

- gLeN
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