Re: [tied] Re: American dialects, correction

> In most American dialects there are two different rhotics:
> one, retroflex, is the native, inerited /r/, while a
> trilled rhotic sound corresponds ot inherited /t/ or /d/
> in intervocalic position. So, words like "rain", "road",
> "range" have the retroflex, while "bottom", "body",
> "bottle" have an intervocalic trilled /r/: /baram/,
> /bare/, /baro/ (with central short /a/).

Not quite. It's a tap or flap, not a trill. The slants are
inappropriate here, since it's an allophone of /t/ or /d/ in
all of these words, and the last has syllabic /l/ more often
than not in my experience.

There are two different realizations of inherited /r/,
however: besides the retroflex /r/, there's a so-called
'bunched' /r/, made with the tip of the tongue behind the
lower teeth.

Brian