From: tgpedersen
Message: 63498
Date: 2009-02-28
>Okay. Now you just have to find a way to make this English dialect
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > AFAIK Southwestern England today has retroflex r's including
> > > syllable-final, and I believe Shropshire does as well.
> >
> > Those sites I've seen present this 'retroflex r' in initial
> > position. The interesting retroflex r is the syllable-final one
> > which produces the preceding vowel to be r-colored. Do you have a
> > reference on such a phoneme on the British.
> >
>
>
> I don't have a reference, but I've heard it. Up until recently
> (perhaps a year ago) one of the characters on the British show
> "Coronation Street" had a strongly retroflexed /r/ even in
> syllable-final position, but he was definitely English and not North
> American or Australian or other. I don't know where he hailed from
> though. I have also seen various British people interviewed on TV
> programs who had North-American style /r/'s, including syllable-
> final, but otherwise had British pronunciation (the most recent one
> was a program on children with extremely high IQ's). Again I can't
> remember where they were from, but I know for sure that they were
> English from England (their home town was indicated) and had
> noticeable North-American-style /r/'s.