Re: [tied] Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/

On 05-03-02 10:43, tgpedersen wrote:

> BTW I looked up Brøndum-Nielsen later; it turns out _all_ Danish
> dialects in their oldest form have apical /r/, which now is moribund
> everywhere. Also, the Lister peninsula in Scania still has
> apical /r/ unrelated to later imports from Stockholm.

OTOH, you can never be too cautious in such matters. The common opinion
until recently, now demonstrated to be groundless, was that English /r/
became gradually de-trilled about the sixteenth century.

Piotr