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Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class: A Narrative Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound in particular r positions.
Davide Costa
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An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England [PDF]
Journal of Phonetics, 2023 This paper presents the first systematic acoustic analysis of a rhotic accent in present- day England. The dataset comprises spontaneous and elicited speech of 28 speakers from Blackburn in Lancashire, Northern England, where residual rhoticity remains, having never been lost in the earlier sound change which rendered most of England non-rhotic ...
Danielle Turton, Robert Lennon
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Lifespans and Styles, 2020 This study examines if a listener’s exposure to nonrhotic dialects of English affects how they perceive rhoticity in words spoken in a Boston English accent.
Christina McDermott
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Singing to a Genre: Constraints on Variable Rhoticity in British Americana
LanguagesThis study focuses on accent shift or stylization to American English features in Anglophone pop-rock music and examines linguistic constraints alongside music-related considerations, as well as the effect of changes in musical genre on variable accent ...
Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
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Lifespans and Styles, 2021 An increasing amount of sociolinguistic research has been concentrated on diachronic idiolect change: the change of an individual’s dialect over time. This paper adds to this growing topic by analyzing the English idiolect change of Giada De Laurentiis ...
Michael Marinaccio
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From categories to gradience: Auto-coding sociophonetic variation with random forests
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 The time-consuming nature of coding sociophonetic variables that are typically treated as categorical represents an impediment to addressing research questions around these variables that require large volumes of data.
Dan Villarreal +3 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2018 Singapore English (SgE) is, thus far, not known to be a rhotic variety of English, having its roots in standard British English (BrE). However, recent studies have shown evidence of rhoticity in SgE, and this has been attributed to the widespread ...
Alexandra Hofbauer
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, 2023 The highly variable nature of rhotics is behind their great potential as sociolinguistic variables. The advent of detailed sociophonetic studies has further increased the interest in exploring the many dimensions of r variation. The main focus of this chapter is on three processes involving rhotic variability.
Sebregts, Koen +2 more
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Anglophonia, 2020 The variability of /r/ in English, and in many other languages of the world, has been widespread and attested for a long time. This variability is all the more likely to prevail among French learners of English.
Ioana Trifu-Dejeu +2 more
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Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow
Journal of Phonetics, 2023 Relatively little research has been conducted on the effect of hearing an unfamiliar native English accent. This paper tests listeners with varying levels of familiarity with the Glaswegian linguistic environment, presenting them with naturalistic minimal pairs such as hut/hurt – produced by speakers raised in Glasgow – in two-alternative-forced-choice
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