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A question about liquid sound /r/ and /l/
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- Subject: A question about liquid sound /r/ and /l/
- From: xinhui zhou <zxinhui2001@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:20:19 -0500
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Hi, everyone,
why /r/ and /l/ are called liquid and how this term liquid originated ?
I happened to read an online book called '' A Little Encyclopaedia
of Phonetics'' (www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/encyc.pdf), which
reminds me of this question I had before.
That book mentioned (pp.47) liquid is an old-fashioned word but
somehow the term suvives. Can someone have more details about the
origin of this term ? Thanks a lot,
Xinhui Zhou