Date:  Tue, 11 Jan 1994 10:13:18 EST

From:  "Joseph C. Salmons" <salmons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU>

Subject: retroflex r



=Why is everybody so quiet this week?

=  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

=

Well, maybe that's enough reason to ask an idle question:

What's the distribution, areal and/or social, of retroflex

vs. non-retroflex r in American English? Teaching in north

central Indiana, I hear both but don't see any obvious

pattern.



joe salmons (salmons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mace.cc.purdue.edu)