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

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/


>
> On 05-03-03 09:54, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
> > Might this (children acquiring "correct" /r/ late, or not at
> > all) account for the variability of /r/ in so many
> > languages?
>
> How else?

I think that in case of /r/ there are more idiosyncracies than elsewhere.
Thus, a chance that an idiosyncracy will spread is bigger. They say that the
French /r/ was also (king's) idiosyncracy in the beginning.

Mate