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

On 05-03-02 14:14, aquila_grande wrote:

> I need some advice: My son has got a girlfriend that uses UVULAR R.
> As a firm believer in the traditional apical trill, I find it
> mandatory to deuvularize her speach and hinder my comming
> grandchildren from picking up this uvular sound. Does anybody have
> any advice of what i can do?

My advice is -- do nothing. Her rhotic is her own and nobody else's
business. What if your son finds it charrrming? ;-) Anyway, children
acquire a correct /r/ so late that by that time their parents'
pronunciation is certainly not the only model they follow. I have an
idiosyncratic uvular trill myself (not like the standard French /r/ but
an actual trill, like what you can often hear in George Brassens'
songs), but both my children have the normative Polish apical trill/tap.

Piotr