Re: [tied] Re: Franco-Provençal

> I can't quite tell the difference between Canadian and
> Standard
> American /r/, but I've noticed over my life that
> individuals in either
> country often have their own variation of these two
> varieties of /r/,
> or at least sound like they do. An example is Sarah Palin,
> whose
> /r/'s sound very pronounced, lengthened, and, to me,
> apparently
> retroflex (I may be wrong).
>
> Andrew

Whereas to me, she sounds like a Canadian, as do a lot of people from the
Great Lakes region

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Sarah Palin seems to have a "vibrant" retroflex r, which makes it longer
than a fricative retroflex r.

I don't know if the IPA makes a difference between them.

A.