Re: uvular R

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > But is it then possible (he asked innocently) that an alveolar

tap

> > produced by "decay" of /r/ could be mistakenly construed as an
> > alveolar tap /D/ (and progress as such)?
>
> The difference only very rarely matters (by being contrastive), and
> if it does, as in Spanish or Basque, contrastivity prevents trilled
> [r] ("rr...") from undergoing reduction.
>

I wonder if that means yes or no? (As you had probably guessed, what
I really asked was whether /r/ > /d/ was possible?)

>
> Piotr

Torsten