REtroflex sounds

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Lars Martin Fosse wrote

>Hock also seems inconsistent when he insists upon the relevance of
>retroflexion in Norwegian and Sicilian, etc.[where retroflexion seems
>allophonic rather than structural, as Jacob Baltuch has observed ],

Why do people always mix up the islands Sardinia and Sicily? Because of the
greater television impact of the latter? Sardinian (sa limba sarda) and Pugliese
were the retroflexe candidates.

>At the risk of repeating myself (I am not sure if I have commented upon this
>before): retroflexion in spoken East Norwegian is not allophonic.

And as regards Sardinian, maybe the double .d.d is indeed allophonic, but
the .n.dh combination is not.

Sandra van der Geer

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