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Hello,
I had to come up with an IPA transcription for the word "furor" today
(leaving the second syllable unstressed, without an "oh" sound), and
I'm a bit confused as to what it should be. After all, the "-or" is
clearly the alveolar approximant (upside down "r" in IPA), but what
about the preceding "r"? It doesn't make any sense to write "fjurr"
with two r's.
It made me think: if you take the sound "er" (as in "Er, I don't know")
you can put an "r" in front of it to make "rer". There is clearly an
extra sound here at the front, but the result isn't just an elongated
"rrr", to me there are two distinct sounds, but I don't know what the
first one would be called. It seems like a labialized r, followed by a
non-labialized one. Can anyone help me understand this? Is there a
separate IPA symbol for this preceding r? I can't seem to find much
mention of it anywhere.
Much thanks,
Michael
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