From: tgpedersen
Message: 30477
Date: 2004-02-02
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:38:14 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>wrote:
> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
> >> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:40:56 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>Hohoho, said Santa. Let's restrict the subject to post-vocalic /r/.
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Amsterdam and Rotterdam Dutch has retroflex r's, as does
> >> >Standard American, _unlike_ New England and Southern.
> >>
> >> Is that so? What kind of /r/ do New England and Southern have?
> >>
> >
> >They drop it, as do British English
>
> _eally?
>
> >(now I'm suddenly not so sure about Southern).
>
> Southern drops postvocalic /r/.