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

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:13:18 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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.

True. I was just listening to a recording of a Polish child
talking about the metlo in Walsawa.

Might this (children acquiring "correct" /r/ late, or not at
all) account for the variability of /r/ in so many
languages?


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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