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From:  "Laura Ruiz" <laura@l...>
Date:  Wed Apr 10, 2002  11:39 pm
Subject:  RE: [vocalist] rrrrrrrrr

Hi there,
Just a married surname, not an original surname, I assure you.

I want to roll an r so bad!!! It's driving me nuts! Maybe one of these
days those exercises will result in my tongue tripping over itself.
It's come close a few times with "pot-o-tea" over and over as fast as I
can, but it never quite gets to the point where it's actually rolling.
Arghhh...

Laura (Sage) Ruiz

-----Original Message-----
From: bjjocelyn@p...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:38 AM
To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vocalist] rrrrrrrrr


Trilling an r ? It can be thrilling ! Well, if you're willing to do it
but
unfortunately can't, don't rant !
Here's a glimpse of hope if you're speaking with a standard
north-american
pronunciation :
since the intervocalic "t" or "tt" in "pity", "city", "better",
"letter",
"latter", "gotta", "oughta", etc, is usually articulated in the States
with
a retroflex tongue, it is both phonologically and acoustically very
similar
to a standard spanish "single coiled" rolled r.
Which makes me think, by the way, how strange Laura Ruiz can't roll her
r's,
despite her hispanic surname (and thus probable origin) ! But to one
extent
this ruins the genetic argument.

BJJocelyn









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