Questions tagged [rhoticity]
Rhoticity refers to the presence or absence of post-vocalic <r> in different varieties of English.
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Child language acquisition as an explanation for American rounding of the /r/ sound
The English phoneme typically represented by the letter ⟨r⟩ represents a confusing and complicated mess of allophonic realizations, some of which are highly disparate and some of which vary only ...
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Native Pronunciation of -rr- in the place name Wirral as voiced alveolar stop -d-
I was surprised to hear the Native Pronunciation of -rr- in the place name Wirral as voiced alveolar stop/tap -d- in this video as spoken by a native centenarian at the time point 0:47:
Life Lessons ...
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Differences in realization of intrusive-r and linking-r?
Are there any good papers that have investigated this? I seemed to notice this with some speakers on television that their intrusive-r's seemed less pronounced than their linking-r's.
I did find a ...
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Why did the pronunciation of the rhotic phoneme /r/ change after the 2ndWW in public speech?
For example why did radio presenters roll the r on the BBC before the war and not after? Why did Brecht roll the r extensively? Why did Hitler roll the r extensively? My perspective is from the ...
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How did Adolf Hitler pronounce his own name?
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian, who used the alveolar trill [r] in his speech, not the Standard German [ʁ]. This is only to be expected for an Austrian.
According to the German Wikipedia, in Austrian ...
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Can R sound follow a schwa in a syllable?
Let me ask a question of an usage of schwa as a phoneme and [r]. This [r] is the sound which is used in English and generally expressed with R and not [r] expressed with IPA.
Schwa can be regarded ...
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What do you call a failed attempt to use the "standard" speech?
Some speakers who use a non-standard accent or dialect of a language, occasionally desire to "adjust" their speech to the standard.
I'm interested in knowing if there is a word for when this fails ...
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Can we have "rhoticized consonant"?
I presume that if your tongue tip is free while you're articulating a consonant, you can make a secondary narrowing with your tongue tip towards the alveolar ridge to produce a double-articulated ...
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How did one pronounce an 'r' in Old English?
I'm wondering how the rhotic consonant was pronounced by the ancient Anglo-Saxons. Was it pronounced as an alveolar like Modern English or more like the trill Scots use in certain words? Were there ...
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What is the cause of the epenthetic ‘r’ in ‘warsh’?
Why does this ‘r’ appear only in ‘wash’ and ‘Washington’ without analogous examples? That is, why does this ‘r’ not also appear in similar constructions (like ‘posh’ (which is never pronounced ‘parsh’)...
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IPA Transcription help [closed]
I'm a linguistics student and working on narrow transcriptions.
Most transcription come fairly easily to me, but I'm caught up on the vowel in the word "hard"
How should the vowel be transcribed with ...
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Do some dialects of English have a liquid vowels, such as /ɹ/ and /ɫ/?
Given that there are some languages that treat /r/ and /l/ as a vowel, such as Czech and Hindi, I am wondering how come the same isn't true in some varieties of English.
As a native English speaker ...
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Why do Richard and Robert become Dick and Bob?
Is there a phonological reason for this change?
I know there are names where, when clipped, there is /r/ in coda position. For example:
Derek > Der
Sarah > Sar
Harold > Har
So in non-rhotic ...
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How is rhoticity distributed among varieties of English? Why is it like this?
The Wikipedia entry on rhotic and non-rhotic accents gives a pretty good overview of which countries and states are rhotic or non-rhotic. What I want to know is what the pattern (or link) between the ...
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