Re: [tied] American dialects, correction

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:38:14 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:40:56 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
>> 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/.

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