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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
Trilled?(!) Not at all. (I am a native of Missouri, U.S., and
basically speak Standard American English, and I am familiar with
most all other U.S. dialects. None have a trill that I am aware of,
unless the speaker is a native Spanish speaker or somesuch.)
We have two rhotics: an alveolar tap (as in "bottom") and an
alveolar approximate (as in "rain").