Re: [lojban] Re: lluis's pronunciation

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:
> 
> > I hear a regular trilled "r". I tend to prefer the flap rather than the
> > trill for Lojban (Spanish "r" rather than "rr"). CLL lists the trill 
> > first among the permitted variants, but it says that in the case of "r"
> > all of the variations are equally acceptable.    
> 
> Yes, as is true for most of the other letters. 

In the pronunciation guide, CLL says that "in all cases except 'r'
the first IPA symbol shown represents the preferred pronunciation". 

> However, my understanding
> of Spanish phonology is that initial "r", though so written, is
> typically rendered as a trill: certainly there is no opposition in
> initial position between "r" and "rr".

Correct. But in Lojban I try not to trill even in initial position,
to maintain a uniform pronunciation for "r".

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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