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Re: Accent
- Subject: Re: Accent
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:26:59 -0800
Robin Turner wrote:
> AFAIK Japanese (and maybe Cantonese, but the other way round)
> are the only people with the r/l problem, which they would
> encounter learning just about any foreign language.
Oh, there is no shortage of languages with a single /l / r/
phoneme (when there is only one, it doesn't really make much
sense to ask whether it is /l/ or /r/). Apart from Mandarin,
Cantonese, Japanese and Korean, there's the entire Polynesian
family; remember Hawai`ian _Mele= Kali=kimaka=_ `Merry Xmas'?
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Ivan A Derzhanski <http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/>
H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria <iad@math.bas.bg>
W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences