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Devibrantización

English translation: no alveolar trill

15:57 Dec 12, 2016
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / Speech and Language Patho
Spanish term or phrase: Devibrantización
From a S&L report from PR.

Procesos Fonológicos:

- Fricación de africados
- Fricación de oclusivos
- Devibrantización
Caiman
United States
Local time: 02:51
English translation:no alveolar trill
Explanation:
Why can't some people roll their 'Rs'? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-some-people-roll-their-Rs
The reason some people cannot roll their "R"s is because of a coordination issue. As Chrys ... The reason people have difficulty rolling their "R"s is not the same reason Arabic speakers struggle to pronounce /p/. ... Is it true that it's impossible to speak the rolled "R" (alveolar trill), if you can't roll the lateral edges of the tongue?
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:51
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1no alveolar trill
liz askew
4lenition/weakening/(degemination) of the alveolar trill / alveolar trill lenition/weakening
Muriel Vasconcellos
3Devibrantización
Cecilia Gowar
Summary of reference entries provided
ver
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
no alveolar trill


Explanation:
Why can't some people roll their 'Rs'? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-some-people-roll-their-Rs
The reason some people cannot roll their "R"s is because of a coordination issue. As Chrys ... The reason people have difficulty rolling their "R"s is not the same reason Arabic speakers struggle to pronounce /p/. ... Is it true that it's impossible to speak the rolled "R" (alveolar trill), if you can't roll the lateral edges of the tongue?

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:51
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4558

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: Obviously needs tweaking to fit the context, but this is enough for me to go on...
57 mins
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: Your answer isn't a process. It says that the sound was never uttered. See my comment below in regard to your reference, which I agree with--sort of. Still, 'multiple vibration absence' is the description of an event, not a process.
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Devibrantización


Explanation:
It does not seem to have an equivalent in English, since it is listed as a Spanish phonological pattern:

"Devibrantización: the multiple /r/ is substituted by the simple /r/ [peɾito] /perito/. 10. Vibrantización: the simple /r/ is substituted by the multiple /r/ [karta] /kaɾta/."

https://goo.gl/xNCBv4

https://goo.gl/6aPlo3

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Note added at 1 hr (2016-12-12 17:27:27 GMT)
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Please ignore my second link... it was a mistake. Here's the right one. Apologies!!

https://goo.gl/dckMfj

Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 240
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lenition/weakening/(degemination) of the alveolar trill / alveolar trill lenition/weakening


Explanation:
The issue could be either weakening of the trill to an alveolar tap (or flap) or "degemination," in which the trill is considered a pair--i.e., /r/+/r/. I was trained to consider the trill a separate phoneme and not a doubling of /r/, so I don't see it as "degemination," but apparently some phonologists do--see the article below on r-weakening. While the article is about the historical development of the language, the phonological processes are the same in referring to the development of child language.

On r-strengthening, r-weakening, and the Rhotic Strength Pattern in ...
https://kflc.as.uky.edu/2014/node/1698
For those languages of the world that have an alveolar trill phoneme, a very ... along with phonemic lenition of the medial intervocalic short alveolar trill to an alveolar tap /ɾ/ and degemination of Latin /rr/ to /r/.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LenitionIn linguistics, lenition is a kind of sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous (vowel-like). The word lenition itself means "softening" or "weakening" (from Latin lenis = weak).

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 23:51
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Reference comments


29 mins
Reference: ver

Reference information:
Spanish Phonological Patterns Identification and Analysis
www.asha.org/Events/convention/handouts/2008/1862_Bou_Nydia...
Stampe (1979) conceived phonological processes to be ... Research in the area of phonologicalpatterns .... Devibrantización: the multiple /r/ is substituted.


9. Devibrantización: the multiple /r/ is substituted by the simple /r/ [pe ɾito] /perito/.


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https://poway.instructure.com/courses/12739/files/6001936/do...
5) Multiple vibration absence (the trill /r/ is produce as tap /ɾ/ or as approximant /ð/) = /pero/ (dog) → [peðo]. 6) Approximant conversion (substitution of tap /ɾ/ or ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4558

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: 'Multiple vibration absence' would work, though it's still not a process; it's just a description of the event. Note "-ción" in the question. 'No alveolar trill' is not only not a process; it implies complete absence of the sound.
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