Subject: Re: [lojban] your rs

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:16:16 -0400

[email-masked] wrote:

> The London situation reported by And seems to be that of fading r caught in
> the peculiar habit of ls to become ws? Can someone fill me in on this 
> habit
> (Walensa in Lodz, talk, a le, etc.)

Lateral consonants come in two flavors, front (as in German) and
back (as in AmE). Sometimes the terms "light" and "dark" are used.
The back/dark "l" has some degree of lip-rounding as a redundant
feature. It's fairly easy for the tongue-movement to get lost
and just the lip-rounding remain, hence l > w.

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