From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 30487 Date: 2004-02-02
02-02-04 13:40, tgpedersen wrote:
> Amsterdam and Rotterdam Dutch has retroflex r's, as does
> Standard American, _unlike_ New England and Southern.
So what kind of /r/ do New England and the South have? As far as I know,
American English /r/ is generally realised as a postalveolar
approximant, more often dorsal ("bunched") than apical or subapical
("retroflex"). General American is no different than the rest.