Subject: Re: AUDITORY Digest - 28 Jan 2006 to 30 Jan 2006 (#2006-20) From: Francisco Fraga <franciscojfraga@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:36:14 -0200Hi Xinhui Zhou, As long as I knew, the term liquid originated from the fact that, in the process of articulation of these sounds, the air flows "softly" to both sides of the tongue, like a liquid... Unfortunately, the references I have for this term are in Portuguese and only in printed books. Sincerely, Francisco Fraga > > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:20:19 -0500 > From: xinhui zhou <zxinhui2001@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: A question about liquid sound /r/ and /l/ > > Hi, everyone, > > why /r/ and /l/ are called liquid and how this term liquid originated ? > I happened to read an online book called '' A Little Encyclopaedia > of Phonetics'' (www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/encyc.pdf), which > reminds me of this question I had before. > > That book mentioned (pp.47) liquid is an old-fashioned word but > somehow the term suvives. Can someone have more details about the > origin of this term ? Thanks a lot, > > Xinhui Zhou > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:46:30 -0800 > From: "Richard F. Lyon" <DickLyon@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: A question about liquid sound /r/ and /l/ > > xinhui zhou <zxinhui2001@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >why /r/ and /l/ are called liquid and how this term liquid originated ? > > I don't know the answer, but you can find many old uses via > http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&q=liquid+vowel+date%3A0-1830 > > For example: > A Grammar of the English Tongue: with the Arts of Logick, Rhetorick, > Poetry, &c. Illustrated... by John Brightland - 1759 - 300 pages > > Page 36 - Consonants are divided into Mutes and Liquids call'd also > Half-Vowels; the Mutes are b, c, d, f, v, g, j, k, p, q, t, and are > so call'd because a Liquid cannot be sounded in the same Syllable > when a Vowel follows it, as (rpo). > > that page has a poem to help you remember them: > > The Consanants we justly may divide > Into Mutes, Liquids, Neuters; and beside > We must for double Consonants provide. > Eleven Mutes Grammarians do declare, > And but four Liquids, l, m, n, and r. > Behind the Mutes the Liquid gently flow > Inverted, from the Tongue they will not go. > > And here's one from 1710: > http://books.google.com/books?vid=0JjE7OS3aP2-L3r1-h&id=gkWKeH7FaowC&pg=PP38 > The Art of English Poetry Containing... > by Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 482 pages > > Dick > > ------------------------------ > > End of AUDITORY Digest - 28 Jan 2006 to 30 Jan 2006 (#2006-20) > ************************************************************** > >