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From: dbucher@world.std.com (Daniel B Bucher)
Subject: Re: What's a "retroflex voice"?
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 19:19:00 GMT
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In article <3768uc$s9c@ia.mks.com>, Rich Wales <richw@mks.com> wrote:
>Could "retroflex voice" perhaps mean that the person was singing or
>speaking while inhaling (i.e., the opposite of how we normally talk)?

No, that's something else whose name I can't recall and I don't have my
phonology book with me. Pulmonary something or other.  Retroflex has
to do with tongue position. Oh! I remember, it's "pulmonary regressive".
Normal English (for example) is "pulmonary egressive."

-Dan
