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Is there any Evidence of Rhoticity in Historical Australian English? [PDF]
, 2010 Australian English is traditionally regarded as having been non-rhotic throughout its history, but a recent study by Trudgill and Gordon (2006) has found rhoticity levels of 1% to 20% in audio recordings of six Australian men born near the end of the ...
Lonergan, John, Cox, Felicity
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(Non)rhoticity in English pronunciation teaching
, 2017 This diploma thesis deals with the role of rhoticity in English pronunciation teaching. The theoretical part focuses on the characterisation of rhoticity as a distinctive feature of English accents.
Kobák, Anett
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IsoglossThe two rhotic consonants of Ibero-Romance languages are characterised by their very specific distribution and by the prosodic weight of one of them. Data has hitherto suggested a geminate-to-single contrast for the pair of rhotics. It will be shown here that this view must be rejected in favour of another which sees these putative geminates as complex
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Relating Acoustic Measures to Listener Ratings of Children's Productions of Word-Initial /ɹ/ and /w/. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2023 Ancel EE, Smith ML, Rao VNV, Munson B.
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Variability in Rhoticity in Czech Speakers of English
, 2019 The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the description of contemporary Czech foreign accent in English by examining Czech learners' rhoticity, a substantial accent feature.
Fischer, Ondřej
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Reproducible Speech Research With the Artificial Intelligence-Ready PERCEPT Corpora. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2023 Benway NR +6 more
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Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners. [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2023 Braber N +4 more
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Rhoticity in Black South African English – a sociolinguistic study
, 2009 This article investigates the phenomenon of rhoticity in the speech of black speakers of South African English. Historically, South African English is non-rhotic. Thus, any shift towards a rhotic variant is a significant language change.
Zerbian, Sabine, Hartmann, Dieter
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The role of F2 and F3 in the perception of rhoticity: Evidence from listening experiments
, 2011 This paper reports on two listening experiments which explore the relative contributions of F2 and F3 in the perception of rhoticity. Experiment 1 tests the hypothesis that a low-frequency F3 is a crucial spectral component for a signal to be perceived ...
Heselwood, B, Plug, L
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What’s wrong with being a rhotic?
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2019 The class of rhotics is subject to extensive variation, and a reliable phonetic correlate has not been found. This variation is also why identifying a segment as a rhotic in an unknown language is not a trivial matter. In contrast to other phonological classes whose membership is attributed based on principled criteria, the set of rhotics is arbitrary.
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