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Investigating residual rhoticity in a non-rhotic accent [PDF]
, 2007 This paper reports on preliminary findings of a study conducted in the Black Country area of the west midlands of England. The small number of linguistic studies carried out in this region in the last 40 years have not found evidence of the continuing existence of variable rhoticity in the local speech variety.
Asprey, Esther
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2017 The realization of postvocalic /r/ has been frequently examined in both diachronic and synchronic research on world Englishes, showing a multitude of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors to modulate the degree of rhoticity.
Li, Zeyu, Kabak, Barış
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Evaluating acoustic representations and normalization for rhoticity classification in children with speech sound disorders [PDF]
JASA Express LettersThe effects of different acoustic representations and normalizations were compared for classifiers predicting perception of children's rhotic versus derhotic /ɹ/. Formant and Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) representations for 350 speakers were
Nina R. Benway +4 more
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Perception-production relations in later development of American English rhotics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 It is known that some adult listeners have more sharply defined perceptual categories than others, and listeners with more precise auditory targets are also more precise in their production of contrasts.
Tara McAllister Byun, Mark Tiede
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Emerging Rhoticity in Nauruan English
In this paper we investigate incipient rhoticity—the realisation of postvocalic /r/—in the English of Nauru, an equatorial Micronesian island of the Western Pacific. Despite its small size, Nauru has a complex colonial history: Germany, Japan, the UK, Australia and New Zealand were all implicated in exploiting Nauru’s phosphate reserves in the 80 years
Britain, David +2 more
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“Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data [PDF]
, 2023 This paper explores the shift to non-rhoticity in Oldham (UK), using oral history interviews recorded in the 1980s, with speakers born between 1893 and 1929.
Drummond, Robert +7 more
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Social meaning in archival interaction: a mixed-methods analysis of variation in rhoticity and past tense BE in Oldham [PDF]
, 2022 This article uses a mixed-methods approach to investigate the indexical fields of two variables, one phonological (rhoticity) and one morphosyntactic (past tense BE), in oral history interviews with speakers from Oldham (Greater Manchester, UK), born ...
Drummond, Robert +7 more
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On the representation and evolution of Australian English and New Zealand English
Anglophonia, 2016 Australian English (AusE) and New Zealand English (NZE) are two originally “transported” Englishes in the Southern hemisphere. Although there is currently no doubt among the scientific community that they constitute two distinct dialects of English with ...
Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain
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On some features of consonants in Indian English [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 The paper aims to show that although the inventory of consonantal phonemes in Indian English does not differ markedly from that of RP, there are some aspects related mainly to different articulations of the sounds discussed which make it sound very ...
Gabriela-Anidora Brozbă
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Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England [PDF]
, 2023 We present a sociophonetic, acoustic, and articulatory analysis of coda rhoticity in East Lancashire, North-West England. We analysed data from 24 participants aged 8–73 recorded at a public engagement event in Blackburn Market (598 tokens).
Nance, Claire +7 more
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