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From: mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: (Ve:) vDisland R
Message-ID: <50@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 11:34:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 11:34:55 1985
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Organization: U.Va. CS dept.  Charlottesville, VA
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I believe that this sound is the "Cranston R".  I've been told that the
folks from Cranston have gotten it included in the International Phonetic
Alphabet.

Might this have anything to do with the French-Canadian community in
Cranston?  Perhaps something happened to the velar R?  How about a bidental
fricative?