Re: [tied] Re: uvular R

In Maddieson's (1984) fairly representative database of 317 languages, 74 (23.3%) have no phonemes classified as rhotic.

Piotr

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From: Glen Gordon

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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 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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