{dl} (was: The Brzhona)

[raybrown@macline.co.uk (Raymond A. Brown)]

At 15:48 26/6/98, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Raymond A. Brown wrote:
[......]

Frank: dl = I can't remember what it's called, but it's a "d" and an "l"
articulated simultaneously

Ray: Been trying to make this sound!  Is it a voiced lateral affricate?

Frank: I dunno <shrug>.

Padraic: Well you discovered it!  I think I understand where you're going
with the description, though.

Frank: Sort of like a trilled "r", but only on tap.  Sorta.  I'll have to
find the paper where I wrote it down.

Ray: Ah - not a lateral affricate, then.  It sounds more like the
intervocalic -t- in, e.g. 'water', 'letter' &c. in certain varieties of
American English.

Ray.