Hi,
How should I pronounce the "r" after the "th" sound?
Examples :
throat
through
thrown
Is it like a Spanish r?
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There is sometimes a tiny schwa inserted to transition between the two sounds (because their places of articulation are fairly far apart), but this sound, when it occurs at all, comes nowhere near the strength of a full letter.
Strigo wrote:Hi,
How should I pronounce the "r" after the "th" sound?
Examples :
throat
through
thrown
Is it like a Spanish r?
elgrande wrote:Despite what all the others have said, I do think I have often (but not most of the time) heard that particular r as a Spanish r, even from speakers who use a "normal" retroflex or alveolar r sound otherwise.
elgrande wrote:Despite what all the others have said, I do think I have often (but not most of the time) heard that particular r as a Spanish r, even from speakers who use a "normal" retroflex or alveolar r sound otherwise.
avatarbg wrote:elgrande wrote:Despite what all the others have said, I do think I have often (but not most of the time) heard that particular r as a Spanish r, even from speakers who use a "normal" retroflex or alveolar r sound otherwise.
That's because a non-retroflex English r is either an alveolar approximant or an alveolar tap/flap/trill. And the approximant may sound to you as a tap/flap (Spanish r in pero). As for hearing the retroflex one as a Spanish one, hm... the difficult part in phonetics and phonology is hearing the difference, rather than the similarity.
Daniel wrote:Avatarbg is right. Being a Scotsman, I roll my R's, especially after consonants and before vowels, but not when it's at the end.
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