That is exactly the situation in Danish: postvocalic /r/ is realized as
non-syllabic "turned a" in postvocalic position (the exact quality is
rather variable, depending on the nature of the preceding vowel) - and we
also have a schwa.
Nina Grønnum
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Alan Cruttenden wrote:
> Following on from John Wells reference to Trager & Smith and the h analysis
> of long vowels and diphthongs, analyses of other languages were similar. In
> German /r/ was said to have a postvocalic realization as a lower-mid
> unrounded vowel (similar to the southern British vowel in 'cup'). This
> despite the presence among the vowel phonemes of a schwa. See for example
> Moulton, Sound patterns of English and German.
>
> Alan Cruttenden
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