Trilling an r ? It can be thrilling ! Well, if you're willing to do it but
unfortunately can't, don't rant !
Here's a glimpse of hope if you're speaking with a standard north-american
pronunciation :
since the intervocalic "t" or "tt" in "pity", "city", "better", "letter",
"latter", "gotta", "oughta", etc, is usually articulated in the States with
a retroflex tongue, it is both phonologically and acoustically very similar
to a standard spanish "single coiled" rolled r.
Which makes me think, by the way, how strange Laura Ruiz can't roll her r's,
despite her hispanic surname (and thus probable origin) ! But to one extent
this ruins the genetic argument.
BJJocelyn
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